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Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility