“A willing heart adds feather to the heel,
And makes the clown a winged Mercury.”
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) Scottish poet and dramatist
De Montfort (1798), Act III, scene 2; in A Series of Plays.
“It may be impossible for a man by merely willing it to add wings to his body, but it is possible for any man, by merely willing it, to add wings to his soul. This perennial miracle of the moral nature is capable of happening at any time.”
Section 6 : Higher Life
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
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Context: The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive. As diverse as the cries for freedom may be, basically they all express one and the same thing: The intolerability of the rigidity of the organism and of the machine-like institutions which create a sharp conflict with the natural feelings for life. Not until there is a social order in which all cries for freedom subside will man have overcome his biological and social crippling, will he have attained genuine freedom. Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature — in the good sense of the word — will he create genuine culture.
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