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— Sydney J. Harris"We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions."
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If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
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