| Concentrate
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| Every minute like a Roman
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| Like a man
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| On doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness
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| Tenderly
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| Willingly
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| With justice
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| And on freeing yourself from all other distractions
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| Yes, you can
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| If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life
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| And stop being aimless
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| Stop letting your emotions override what your mind knows
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| Stop being hypocritical
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| Self-centered
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| Irritable
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| You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life?
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| If you can manage this
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| That’s all even the gods can ask of you
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| Yeah, keep on degrading yourself
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| Soul
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| Soon your chance at dignity
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| It will be gone
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| Everybody gets one life
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| Yours is almost all used up
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| Now
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| And instead of treating yourself
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| With respect
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| You have entrusted
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| Your own happiness
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| Unto the souls of others
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| Unto the souls of others
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| Do external things distract you?
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| Then make time to learn something worthwhile
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| Stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions
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| But make sure you guard against the other kind of confusion
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| People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct
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| Every thought and impulse toward are wasting all their time
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| Even when hard at work
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| Even when hard at work
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| Ignoring what goes on in other people’s souls
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| No one ever came to grief that way
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| But if you won’t keep track of what your own soul’s doing
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| How can you not be unhappy?
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| Don’t ever forget these things
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| The nature of the world
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| My nature
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| How I relate
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| Unto the world
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| What proportion of it I make up
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| That you are part of nature
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| And no one can prevent you from speaking and acting in harmony with it
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| Always
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| Yeah, keep on degrading yourself
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| Soul
|
| Soon your chance at dignity
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| It will be gone
|
| Everybody gets one life
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| Yours is almost all used up
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| Now
|
| And instead of treating yourself
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| With respect
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| You have entrusted
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| Your own happiness
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| Unto the souls of others
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| Unto the souls of others |