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The moods that in less strenuous natures ended in melancholy, philosophic or poetic, to him were fresh incentives to redeem the time.
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John Morley
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Morley suggests that challenges can inspire individuals to make the most of their time and opportunities.
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Do not weary or fret or nag him with your superior wisdom.
We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.
It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.
My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.
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