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He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings. An old chronicle. To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination... Upright to what? Something nameless in the night, lode or matrix. To which he and the stars were common satellite. Like the great pendulum in its rotunda scribing through the long day movements of the universe of which you may say it knows nothing and yet know it must.

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So I come back again to the condition that the Golden Rule, if one adopts it, is a difficult master to serve. The ship__ captain will not throw the compass overboard because the wind blows fair and the day is funny. For he knows, from the experiences of the ocean__ instability, that the danger days of storm are always __ust ahead._ So the compass must always be handy and obedience to it must always be loyal. And so with the Golden Rulle__he compass must be ever at hand through life__ journey. It will see us through trying times. And perhaps the most trying of all times comes when success is riding high and we may be tempted to __hrow the compass overboard._ It is then we must remember that all good days in human life come from the mastery of the days of trouble that are forever recurrent.