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nature makes us free and unrestrained, but we bind and confine immure and force ourselves into small and scanty space

Though slowly and with pain, the objects of the affections change, as the objects of thought do.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

Thus even love, which is the deification of persons, must become more impersonal every day.

It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.

In the course of time, we grow to love things we hated and hate things we loved.

The length of man's life, which is endless to the brave and busy, is scorned by his ambitious thought.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The great crisis must come, or no man has the chance to develop great qualities.

Alas, we have known Times call loudly enough for their great man; but not find him when they called!

If to-day thou art not ready, how shalt thou be ready to-morrow?

Our supreme task is the resumption of our onward, normal way.

Old companions are like meats served up too often, that lose their relish and their wholesomeness.

We are all to some degree oppressed, unfree. We don't come to our own. It is there, but we don't get at it. The threshold must be made to shift.

Accordingly a function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute.