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214 :Without the farthest conceivable one coming a bit nearer the beginning than any.

11. Whatever satisfies Souls is true,
 * Prudence entirely satisfies the craving and glut of Souls,
 * Itself finally satisfies the Soul,
 * The Soul has that measureless pride which revolts from every lesson but its own.

12. Now I give you an inkling,
 * Now I breathe the word of the prudence that walks abreast with time, space, reality,
 * That answers the pride which refuses every lesson but its own.

13. What is prudence, is indivisible,
 * Declines to separate one part of life from every part.
 * Divides not the righteous from the unrighteous, or the living from the dead,
 * Matches every thought or act by its correlative,
 * Knows no possible forgiveness or deputed atonement,
 * Knows that the young man who composedly perilled his life and lost it, has done exceeding well for himself, without doubt,
 * That he who never perilled his life, but retains it to old age in riches and ease, has probably achieved nothing for himself worth mentioning;
 * Knows that only the person has really learned, who has learned to prefer results,
 * Who favors body and Soul the same,
 * Who perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct,
 * Who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries or avoids death.