"To influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. "
~ Oscar Wilde
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~ Oscar Wilde
More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde
Free eBooks and Kindle editions from Oscar Wilde at
http://www.manybooks.net/search.php?search=Oscar+Wilde
The Lord gives us our daily bread as we ask, but it is up to us to eat of it.
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ellie
Thank you ellie.
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