Did you think you could have the good without the evil Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow .... I have been thinking much about pain. How could I help it .... Sooner or later, regardless of the wit of man, we have pain to face a reality a final inescapable, immutable fact of life. What poor souls, if we have then no philosophy to face it with This pain will not last it never has lasted. Ill think about what I am going to write tomorrownot about me, not about my body.
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Suddenly it came to me, as a kind of new light, that I would no longer resist and struggle I would accept the unavoidable. If it was in the nature of my disease, what else that was wise could I do At first the torment, ravaging unrestrained, seemed even.
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At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.
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