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"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract." - Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

-- Epictetus

At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

Let us think of the great invisible ship that carries our human destinies upon eternity. Like the vessels of our confined oceans, she has her sails and her ballast. The fear that she may pitch or roll on leaving the roadstead is no reason for increasing the weight of the ballast by stowing the fair white sails in the depths of the hold. Sails were not woven t… Continue