"But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good."

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Source : 'Liberty' (1833)

Hartley Coleridge

#Liberty Quotes #Be Good Quotes #Understood Quotes

“An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.”
“Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance...”
“May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay, we even delight in not remaining 'in the world.'”
“It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.”
“When humor goes, there goes civilization.”
“Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.”
“It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.”
“I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.”

Source : Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland: City of Golden Shadow”, p.467, Penguin

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