No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
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We are judged not by the degree of our light but by fidelity to the light we have.William Ellery Channing
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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Error is discipline through which we advance.
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Everything here, but the soul of man, is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within.
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