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Dec 29, 2022 Tintern Mar 20, 2022 Andrei Davydov	histmss-074991-0020 Count that day lost whose low desending Views from thy hand no worthy activid[?] The heights by great men reached & kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their Companions slept Were toiling upward in the night Reading makes a full man. Writing makes a correct man, Conversation makes a ready man but thinking makes a great man. He that has light with in his own clear breast May sit in the centre and enjoy bright day But he that hides a dark soul & foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the midday sun Attempt the end & never stand to doubt Nothing so hard but search will find it out this above all to thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day Though canst not then be fake to any man	histmss-074991-0020 Count that day lost whose low desending Views from thy hand no worthy activid[?] The heights by great men reached & kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their Companions slept Were toiling upward in the night Reading makes a full man. Writing makes a correct man, Conversation makes a ready man but thinking makes a great man. He that has light with in his own clear breast May sit in the centre and enjoy bright day But he that hides a dark soul & foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the midday sun Attempt the end & never stand to doubt Nothing so hard but search will find it out this above all to thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day Though canst not then be fake to any man

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