Miranda Johnston

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[from] Edgar Allan Poe: 'Alone'..

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.


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"Is it so bad to be misunderstood?
Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates,
and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton,
and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.
To be great is to be misunderstood!"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson


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"You must be the change you wish to see reflected in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi




"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing.
It was here first."

- Mark Twain
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens
can change the world.
Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead




"Far and away
the best prize that life offers
is the chance to work hard
at work worth doing."

- Theodore Roosevelt
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"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."

-Mahatma Gandhi




"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing."

- Albert Einstein
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"Nobody made a greater mistake
than he who did nothing
because he could only do a little."

- Edmund Burke




"We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless,
for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy,
for no document from human hands
can make these humans any less our brothers.
A time comes when silence is betrayal.
That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam.
A nation that continues year after year
to spend more money on military defense
than on programs of social uplift,
is approaching spiritual death
I knew that America would never
invest the necessary funds or energies
in rehabilitation of its poor
so long as adventures like Vietnam
continued to draw men and skills and money
like some demonic destructive suction tube.
So I was increasingly compelled to see the war
as an enemy of the poor."

- Rev. Martin Luther King

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"Truth resides in every human heart,
and one has to search for it there
and to be guided by truth as one sees it.
But no one has a right to coerce others to act
according to his own view of truth."

- Mahatma Gandhi



Alis volat propriis.
She Flies With Her Own Wings
Dum spiro spero, quae sursum volo videre.
While I breathe I hope, I long to see what is beyond.

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