I - We pass and dream. Earth smiles. Virtue is rare.

by Fernando Pessoa · 1920
Published 01/07/1920

We pass and dream. Earth smiles. Virtue is rare.

Age, duty, gods weigh on our conscious bliss.

Hope for the best and for the worst prepare.

The sum of purposed wisdom speaks in this.

#duty #existentialism #fernando pessoa #hope #transience #virtue

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