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carries on

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God buries his workmen, but carries on his work. Charles Wesley

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. Lionel Trilling

As things stand now the feudal lords are content to look on while the shogunate carries on in a highhanded manner. Neither the lords nor the shogun can be depended upon, and so our only hope lies in grass-roots heroes. Yoshida Shoin

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public. Maurice Chevalier

Death carries on its shoulders a heavy Tsar just as easily as a light beggar. Russian Proverb

Who carries on his back is thrown from the saddle. Sicilian Proverb

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