"The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil."
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"My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted."
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"Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at every step. In fear that it may be frayed, or stained with dust, they keep themselves from the world and are afraid ever to move. Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life."
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"Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it."
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"Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically."
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"We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope."
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"Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product."
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"Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole."
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"for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself."
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"Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth."
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"Our creation is the modification of relationship."
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"The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity."
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"Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes."
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"Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger."
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"In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan."
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"O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music."
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"Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love."
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"The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air"
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"Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs."
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"By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root."
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