The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one … - Amos Bronson Alcott

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Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

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Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?

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Scientists say they have developed a car that can run on water. The only catch is, the water has to come from the Gulf of Mexico.

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Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.

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Ann Brashares

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

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Virginia Woolf

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

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Rhonda Byrne

Often when people first hear this part of the Secret they recall events in history where masses of lives were lost, and they find it incomprehensible that so many people could have attracted themselves to the event. By the law of attraction, they had to be on the same frequency as the event. . . . those thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time

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