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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will
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Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.
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A man's life does not develop rightly without it, and what is called an 'improvident marriage' often appears to me a noble, righteous, and prudent act.
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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
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The most serious effect upon the poor comes when dependence upon the charitable society is substituted for the natural outgoing of human love and sympathy, which, happily, we all possess in some degree.
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Work is love made visible.
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You are good when you strive to give of yourself.
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Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
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Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved object.
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Freedom, too, the long-sought, we still seek,--the freedom of life and limb, the freedom to work and think, the freedom to love and aspire.