The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.
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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.William Ellery Channing
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
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The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learnings altar vanish from the plain.
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We can fix our eyes on perfection, and make almost everything speed towards it.
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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