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In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.

Jane AddamsTwenty Years at Hull-House

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This line suggests that moral truth must be lived, not left as a distant idea. It leans toward an internal standard. Because it is brief, it can widen toward conscience, effort, and the shaping of one’s life.