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“An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.”

William Ellery Channing

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The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found…

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A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

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Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which he pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience,…

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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

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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…

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We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

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No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition…

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I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with…

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

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Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him.

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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden…

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Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make…

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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks…

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You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take…

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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an…

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God puts you where God needs you. You are where you are supposed to be. The job you are doing may not be any easier on account of this, indeed it may be harder, even more urgent, but now you are centered, focused, clear. So this is where I am supposed to be. I always thought I was supposed to…

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