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Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay,
The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean away:
Thine eyes at last look far and clear, thou liftest high thy hand
To spread the light of liberty world-wide for every land.

— Henry van Dyke Liberty Enlightening the World (1917)

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What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

Raise the stone, and thou shalt find me; cleave the wood and there am I.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.

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