Jane Sinnett, trans 1846 p. 53
The Vocation of Man (1800), Knowledge
“The World doth not imprison thee.
Thou art thyself the World, and there, Within thyself,
thou hold'st thyself Thy self-imprisoned Prisoner.”
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