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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

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It is a far, far better thing that I do now, then I have ever done before... it is a far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known before.

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The lazy man always does twice the work.
(El bago siempre pasa double trabajo)

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When you have reached a point at which you cannot see more, You must remember that there may be a point beyond this at which you can see everything.

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I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.

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I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.

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We cannot be sure that we have something to live for unless we are ready to die for it.

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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

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The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

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