How strange now, looks the ...

How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!
How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!
 Robert Browning

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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.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 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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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
 Robert Browning
grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.
 Robert Browning
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
 Robert Browning
Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.
 Robert Browning
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.
 Robert Browning