Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Thomas Carlyle
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  2. He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything

  3. Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.

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