The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.William Ellery Channing
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
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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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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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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.
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