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Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this freedom, and this activity are employed in the service of an ideal higher than that of an ordinary man taken by himself.
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Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.
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The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.
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But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.
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Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
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