"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success."
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"The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.“
-William Ellery Channing
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