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He that goes back does, since he goes, advance, / Though he doth not advance who goeth back, / And he that seeks, though he on nothing chance, / May still by words be said to find a lack.
This paradox of having, that is nought / In the world's meaning of the things it screens, / Is yet true of the substance of pure thought / And there means something by the nought it means.