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Speaker 1: Calmness and resource. He who has truth is all his

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self possessed. Hurry and excitement, anxiety and fear have no

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place in the purified mind, and the true life. Self

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conquest results in perpetual calm. Calmness is the radiant light

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which adds a luster to all the virtues. Like the

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numbers round the head of the saint, it surrounds virtue

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with its shining halo. Without calmness, a man's greatest strength

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is but a kind of exaggerated weakness. Where is a

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man's spiritual strength, where indeed is his ordinary manly strength?

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Who loses his balance with almost every petty disturbance from without?

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And what enduring influence can a man have who forgets

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himself in sinful abandonment or unseemly rage in the hour

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of temptation and crisis. The virtuous put a check upon

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themselves and set a watch upon their passions and emotions.

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In this way they gain possession of the mind and

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gradually acquire calmness. And as they acquire calmness, they acquire influence, power, greatness, abiding, joy,

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and fullness, and completeness of life. Those who do not

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put a check upon themselves, whose emotions and passions are

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their masters, who crave excitement and race, often unholy pleasures.

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These are not yet fit for a life of joyful victory,

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and can neither appreciate nor receive the beautiful jewel of calmness.

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Such may pray for peace with their lips, but they

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do not desire it in their hearts, or the word

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quote peace unquote may only mean to them another kind

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of periodic pleasure which they desire to enjoy. In the

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life of the calm there are no fitful periods of

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sinful excitement followed by reactionary hours of sorrow and remorse.

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There are no foolish elations followed by equally foolish depressions,

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no degrading actions followed by misery and loss of self respect.

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All these things are put away, and what remains is truth,

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and truth is forever encircled with peace. The calm life

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is new, unbroken bliss. Duties which are irksome to the ungoverned,

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are things of joy to the calm man. Indeed, in

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the calm life, the word quote duty unquote receives a

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new meaning. It is no longer opposed to happiness, but

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it is one with happiness. The calm man, the right

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seeing man, cannot separate joy from duty. Such separation belongs

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to the mind and life of the pleasure hunter and

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lover of excitement. Calmness is difficult to attain because men

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cling blindly to the lower disturbances of the mind for

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the passing pleasure which these disturbances are for. Even sorrow

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is sometimes selfishly gloated over as a kind of occasional luxury.

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But though difficult to attain, the way which leads to

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its attainment is simple. It consists of abandoning all those

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excitements and disturbances which are opposed to it, and fortifying

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oneself in these dead fast virtues, which do not change

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with changing events and circumstances, which have no violent reactions,

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and which therefore bestow perpetual satisfaction and abiding peace. He

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only finds peace who conquers himself, who strives day by

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day after self possession, greater self control, greater calmness of mind,

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One can only be a joy to himself and a

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blessing to others in the measure that he has command

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of himself, and such self command is gained only by

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persistent practice. A man must conquer his weakness by daily effort.

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He must understand them and study how to eliminate them

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from his character. If he continues to strive, not giving way,

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he will gradually become victorious. Each little victory gained, though

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there is a sense in which no victory can be

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called little, will be so much more calmness acquired and

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added to his character as an eternal position. He will

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thus make himself step strong, capable, and blessed, fit to

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perform his duties faultlessly and to meet all events with

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an untroubled spirit. But even if he does not, in

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this life reach that supreme calm which no shock can disturb,

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he will become sufficiently self possessed and pure to enable

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him to fight the battle of life fearlessly, and to

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leave the world a little richer for having known the

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goodness of his presence. By constantly overcoming self, a man

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gains a knowledge of the subtle intricacies of his mind,

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and it is this divine knowledge which enables him to

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become established in calmness. Without self knowledge, there can be

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no abiding peace of mind, and those who are carried

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away by temptuous passions cannot approach the holy place where

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calmness reigns. The weak man is like one who, having

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mounted a fiery steed, allows it to run away with

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him and carry him whithersoever it wills. The strong man

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is like one who, having mounted this deed, governs it

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with a masterly hand and makes it go in whatever

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direction and whatever speed he commands. Calmness is the crowning

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beauty of a character that has become or is becoming, divine,

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and is RESTful and peace giving to all who come

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in contact with it. Those who are still in their

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weakness and doubt find the presence of the calm mind

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ristful to their troubled minds, inspiring to their faltering feet,

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and rich with healing and comfort in the hour of sorrow.

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For he who is strong to overcome self is strong

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to help others. He who has conquered soul weariness is

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strong to help the weary. On the way, that calmness

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of mind, which is not disturbed or overthrown by trials

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and emergencies, or by the accusations, slanders and misrepresentations of others,

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is born of great spiritual strength. It is the true

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indication of an enlightened and wise understanding. The calm mind

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is the exalted mind, divinely gentle and externally strong. Is

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that man who does not lose his serenity nor forget

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his peace when falsehoods and indignities are heaped upon him.

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Such calmness is the perfect flower of self control. It

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has been slowly and laboriously gained by patiently passing through

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the fires of suffering, by subjecting the mind to a

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long process of purification. The calm man has discovered the

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spring of both happiness and knowledge within himself, and it

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is a spring that can never run dry. His powers

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are at his full command, and there is no limit

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to his resources. In whatever direction he employs his energies,

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he will manifest the regionality and power. And this is

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so because he deals with things as they are, and

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not with mere opinions about things. If he has any

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opinions left, he is no longer enamored of them, but

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sees them as they are mere opinions and therefore of

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no intrinsic value. He has abolished egotism, and by obedience

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to law, has become one with the power and nature

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in the universe. His resources are untrammeled by selfishness, his

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energies unhindered by pride. There is a sense in which

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he has ceased to regard anything as his own. Even

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his virtues belong to truth and not exclusively to his person.

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He has become a conscious principle of cosmic power, and

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is no longer a mean, dwarfed thing seeking petty personal ends.

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And having put away his self, he has put away

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the greed, the misery, the troubles and fears which belong

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to self. He acts calmly and accepts all consequences with

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equal calmness. He is efficient and accurate, and perceives all

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that is involved in any undertaking. He does not work blindly.

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He knows that there is no chance of favor. The

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mind of the calm man is like the surface of

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a still lake. It reflects life and the things of

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life truly, whereas the troubled mind, like the troubled surface

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of the lake, gives back a distorted image of all

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things which fall upon it. Gazing into the serene depths

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within him, the self conquered man sees just reflection in

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the universe. He sees the cosmic perfection, sees the equity

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in his own lot. Even those things which are regarded

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by the world as unjust and grievous, and which formerly

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appeared so to him, are now known to be the

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effects of his own past deeds, and are therefore joyfully

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accepted as portions of the perfect whole. Thus his calmness

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remains with him with its illimitable fund of resource in

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joy and enlightenment. The calm man succeeds where the disturbed

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man fails. He is fit to deal with any external difficulty,

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who has successfully grappled with the most intricate difficulties and

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problems within his own heart. He who has succeeded in

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governing though within, is best equipped to govern the without.

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The calm mind perceives a difficulty in all its bearings

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and understands best how to meet it. The disturbed mind

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is the lost mind. It has become blind, seeing not

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whither to go, but only feeling its own unhappiness and fear.

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The resource of the calm man or superior to all

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incidents which may befall him. Nothing can alarm him, nothing

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can find him unprepared, nothing can shake his strong, insteadfast mind.

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Wheresoever duty may call him, there will his strength manifest itself.

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There will his mind free from the frictions of self

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exhibit its silent and patient power. Whether he be engaged

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in things worldly or things spiritual, he will do his

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work with concentrated vigor and penetrating insight. Calmness means that

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the mind is harmoniously adjusted, perfectly poised. All its extremes,

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once so antagonistic and painful, are reconciled, merged into one grand,

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central principle with which the mind has identified itself. It

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means that the runaway passions are tamed and subjected, the

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intellect is purified, and the will is merged into the

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cosmic world. That is, it is no longer centered upon

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narrow personal ends, but is concerned with the good of all.

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A man is not wholly victorious until he is perpetually calm.

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While passing things disturb him. His understanding is unripe, his

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heart is not altogether pure. A man cannot advance in

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the triumph of life while he flatters and deceives himself.

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He must awake and be fully alive to the fact

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that his sins, sorrows, and troubles are of his own

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making and belong to his own imperfect condition. He must

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understand that his miseries have their root in his own sins,

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and not in the sins of others. He must strive

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after calmness as the covetous man strives after riches, and

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he must not rest satisfied with any partial attainment. He

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will thus grow in grace and wisdom, in strength and peace,

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and calmness will descend upon his spirit, as the refreshing

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dew descends upon the flowers. Where the calm mind is,

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there is strength and rest, there is love and wisdom.

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There is one who has fought successfully innumerable battles against self, who,

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after long toil and secret against his own failings, has

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triumphed at last