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On the issue of slavery, Lafayette urged Washington and other Founding Fathers to do away with the destructive and immoral practice.
It was as obvious then, as it is today, that slavery is not consistent with liberty. Lafayette and many of his contemporaries had figured it out.
“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. ... We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. . . We must recover the sense of the majesty of the creation and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.”
― The Long-Legged House
― The Long-Legged House
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
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“All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”
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“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
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“Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.”
― The Horse and His Boy
― The Horse and His Boy
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