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If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
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Old companions are like meats served up too often, that lose their relish and their wholesomeness.
William Hazlittverified·On Living to One's-Self, in Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners·January 1821
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do, just as one pleases.
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When this corrupting passion once takes possession of the human mind, like the love of gold it becomes insatiable.
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Ideal aspirations are not enough, when uncombined with pluck and will.
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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.
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Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.
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Most of us continue living unnecessarily near our surface.
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While a slave remains in his fetters, the land must have no rest.
William Lloyd Garrisonverified·No Compromise with Slavery: An Address Delivered in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York·February 14, 1854
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Accordingly a function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute.