"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."

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"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."

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"It takes two flints to make a fire."

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"Today I make time to release any burdens that I carry. One by one I release them into the atmosphere, until my body is in a complete state of calm."

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"We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire."

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"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."

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