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Revision pictured as pruning: man is placed in the garden of God, his mind, to dress it and keep it; having slept, he finds weeds, which show as the conditions of his life, and every man he meets is a branch of his own tree. With the pruning shears of revision he cuts back and reshapes the branch (the unemployed friend pruned into employment) so that only lovely things grow.
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For it is magic, this pruning shears of revision
Revision is forgiveness