Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.


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You haste away so soon:
As yet the early-rising Sun
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The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand. All
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They would have figured out a way to get the job done.
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We have a right to life, not on it.
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Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Su...
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HERMAN EDWARDS
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We use it as motivation. But we know we haven't done anything yet.
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My sun has not yet set for ever.
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We don't think it's a done deal yet, ... It's moving really slow, so we have to hang with it. But th...
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He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad
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Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun.”
ANNE RICE
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KEVIN DEYOUNG
We are supposed to get some furniture but we have not heard anything from the ministry as yet.
SHARON REID
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ANDY MULLINS
Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON
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They don't have any power. The water is still rising as we speak.
AMY WILSON
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and yet the cold blue word is spoken:
say goodbye now to ...
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By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gen...
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Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.
DAVID GARRICK
Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.
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(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
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There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a publi...
JEFFREY KLUGER
Let others hail the rising sun:
I bow to that whose course is run
DAVID GARRICK
The others would disperse. Some would join other packs, some would starve. It's a live by the sword,...
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Had we sat down and said, 'Let's start a photo application,' we would have failed. We would have don...
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