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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

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My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.

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To fill the hour──that is happiness.

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The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.

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The house praises the carpenter.

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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

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The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

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[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

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The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.

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He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

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Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

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Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is to bepainted, a lock to be repaired. I want wood, or oil, or meal, or salt; the house smokes, or I have a headache; then the tax; and an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains; and the stinging recollection of an injurious or very awkward word,--these eat up the hours.

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We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!

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Life too near paralyses art.

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Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

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To be great is to be misunderstood.

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God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

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To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

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