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“The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.”
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- Source:
- Meditations. iv. 1.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c40b4395b09f22287fd6cc42172e0657720ade1815cb719e6feb8fb35286c838
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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