Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt
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  2. Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

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  5. All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.

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