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But a brief existence is common to all things, and yet thou avoidest and pursuest all things as if they would be eternal.

The man who wrote "100 Things to Do Before You Die" died -- at age 47 -- in a fall at his house in L.A. Ann Althouse 2008

But a brief existence is common to all things, and yet thou avoidest and pursuest all things as if they would be eternal.

The Meditations 2004

Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision

And seeing that tenant of the earth quickly pursuing those tenants of the air, the ascetic, O Kaurava, addressed him in this Sloka, -- O fowler, it appears very strange and wonderful to me that thou, that art a treader of the earth, pursuest yet

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

Or a despiser of suffering for I seek to do thee naught harmful, and thou thyself pursuest what is harmful to thee, as thou to say, 'I am indifferent to pain.'

The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 Louis Ginzberg 1913

But a brief existence is common to all things, and yet thou avoidest and pursuest all things as if they would be eternal.

X 1909

Bakr Ibn An-Nattah said of him: _O thou who pursuest the study of alchemy, the great alchemy consists in praising the son of Isa.

A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions 1903

And thou fliest him who loves thee, and him who loves thee not thou pursuest, that he may love thee and thou mayest fly him once again.

Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902