There never was a war that ...

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.
There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.
 Marianne Moore

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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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Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.
 Marianne Moore
What is there in being able to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of self-defense; in proving that one has had the experience of carrying a stick?
 Marianne Moore
The heart that gives, gathers.
 Marianne Moore
Omissions are not accidents.
 Marianne Moore
the small tuft of fronds or katydid legs above each eye, still numbering the units in each group; the shadbones regularly set about the mouth, to droop or rise
 Marianne Moore