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Liberty is not in any form of government. It is in the heart of free man; he carries it with him everywhere.
There is always safety in valor.
The happy only are the truly great.
Listen! The Mighty Being is awake, and doth with His eternal motion make, a sound like thunder — everlastingly.
Give me liberty to know.
An honest heart possesses a kingdom.
He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions — such a man is… a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being — an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.
‘Tis well, ’tis well; no more: Be not as extreme in submission as in offence.
Love and resentment can never occupy the same space at the same time.
Narrowness of mind is the cause of obstinacy — we do not easily believe what is beyond our site.
Man’s true nature, his true good, true virtue, and true religion, are things of which the knowledge is inseparable.
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
I count life just a stuff to try the soul’s strength on.
When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you dwell in poverty, and you are poverty.
The partial becomes whole, the crooked becomes straight, the empty becomes full, the worn out becomes new.
Jesus’ followers asked him, “When will the kingdom come?” He answered, “It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, ‘Look, here it is,’ or ‘Look, there it is.’ Rather, the father’s kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people do not see it.”
The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Great peace have they which love Thy law; and nothing shall offend them.
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
