To journey without being changed is to be a nomad To change without a journey is to be a chameleon To journey and be transfomed by the journey is to be a pilgrim — Mark Nepo
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"It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” missing verse But with the woes of sin and strife The world has suffered long; Beneath the angel-strain have rolled Two thousand years of wrong; And man, at war with… — Edmund Hamilton Sears, written in the context of the social strife that plagued the country during the approaching Civil War