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“Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition.”
― Happiness and Contemplation
― Happiness and Contemplation
“Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.”
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“Roosevelt was a Hamiltonian--a conservative in the eighteenth century sense of the word. Rather than urging the American people to "pursue happiness," as Jefferson the liberal did in the Declaration of Independence, Roosevelt admonished them to live the "Strenuous Life" of duty, toil, and strife, and to avoid "ignoble ease"--advice Hamilton would have heartily approved.”
― Theodore the Great
― Theodore the Great
Conor’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Conor’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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