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“The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul. The soul must work its way out of prison, and, in doing so, provide itself with wings for a future journey. It is for each of us to determine whether our wings shall be those of an angel or a grub!”

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Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
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“Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.”

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Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
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