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The world is full of renunciations and apprenticeships, and this is thine; thou must pass for a fool and a churl for a long Season.

Emerson.

Built of furtherance and pursuing,
Not of spent deeds, but of doing.
Silent rushes the swift Lord
Through ruined systems still restored.

Emerson.