#endowment

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#equal #liberty #men #nature #other

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#endowment #every #his #human #human life

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments. ↗

— Mary Astell

#full #good #heart #himself #his