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Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a

Enough shovels of earth — a mountain. Enough pails of water — a river. – Chinese Proverb

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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. – Matthew Arnold

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Climb mountains to see lowlands. – Chinese Proverb

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Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
Think each in each, immediately wise;
Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
What this tumultuous body now denies;
And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
And see, no longer blinded by our eyes. – Rupert Brooke

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The perfecting of ones self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. – Confucius

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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life. – Saul Alinsky

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