A clear thought, a pure ...

A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.
A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.
 William Ellery Channing

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
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 Winston Churchill
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
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 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
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 Mahatma Gandhi
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
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 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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 William Ellery Channing
Error is discipline through which we advance.
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
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 William Ellery Channing
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
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 William Ellery Channing
In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.
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 William Ellery Channing