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It is not down in any map; true places never are
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102
It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.
103
To grow in self-control, in patience, in equanimity, is to grow in strength and power; and you can only thus grow by focusing your consciousness upon a principle.
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National honor is national property of the highest value.
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Such a young person persistently believes that behind all suffering, behind sin and want, must lie redeeming magnanimity.
106
She is besotted with innocent little ambitions, and does not understand this apparent waste of herself, this elaborate preparation, if no work is provided for her.
107
Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.
108
These young people have had advantages of college, of European travel, and of economic study, but they are sustaining this shock of inaction.
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Our young people feel nervously the need of putting theory into action, and respond quickly to the Settlement form of activity.
110
Huxley declares that the sense of uselessness is the severest shock which the human system can sustain, and that if persistently sustained, it results in atrophy of function.
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I will give my all in your service thinking not of power, but of possibilities.
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We will lead not merely by the example of our power but by the power of our example.
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ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country
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Remember, then, that I, at least, have warned you, that the happiness of your life, and its power, and its part and rank in earth or in heaven, depend on the way you pass your days now.
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The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way
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One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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I seemed to have nothing left to live for.
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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
120
The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means?
121
At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down.
122
There was a Care on my Mind so to pass my Time, that nothing might hinder me from the most steady Attention to the Voice of the true Shepherd.
123
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
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Work is love made visible.
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Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.