Everything here, but the soul of man, is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within.
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I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, which does not cower to human opinion, which feels itself accountable to a higher tribunal than man's, which respects itself too much to be the slave of the many or the few.William Ellery Channing
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
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