Common Prayers

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“The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)