“Adversity is the first path to truth.”
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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.