Opportunity

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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley
Turning, for them who pass, the common dust
Of servile opportunity to gold.

Desultory Stanza
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
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