It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives. Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings.
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It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
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True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.
True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.
I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.
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A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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