There is a kind of strength that consists in being ready rather than being certain. Maturity carries its own steadiness.
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The line is quiet, almost spare, but it contains a whole posture toward life. Shakespeare places value not on control of events, but on the inward condition that can meet them.
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Its endurance comes from that distilled seriousness. Ripeness suggests growth completed enough to bear what comes next.
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