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tarry
1. To leave slowly and hesitantly.
2. To delay a departure or arrival; especially, in an idle way.
3. To wait in expectation of someone or something.
4. To delay or to postpone starting or acting; to linger.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For Life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children, as living arrows, are sent forth.
—Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), Prophet
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