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We do not know today whether we are busy or idle....

“We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered, that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Experience,” collected in Essays and Lectures

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