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"But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."

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"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."

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"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

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"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."

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"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

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"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."

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"But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."

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"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."

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"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

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"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."

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"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

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"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."

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"I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business."

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"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."

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"A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."

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"Education is the cheap defense of nations."

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"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."

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"Facts are to the mind what food is to the body."

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"You can never plan the future by the past."

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"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

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"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."

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"When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

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"Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none."

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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

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"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government."

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"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."

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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."

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"He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls."

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"Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy."

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"Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls."

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"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together."

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"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

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"If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue."

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"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."

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"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."

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"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination."

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

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"When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

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"Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco."

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"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination."

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"To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men."

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"It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs."

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"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."

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"There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations."

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"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."

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"Our patience will achieve more than our force."

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"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."

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"When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

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"Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement."

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"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together."

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"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."

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"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."

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"All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice."

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"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

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"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference."

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"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."

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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."

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"Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel."

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"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."

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"You can never plan the future by the past."

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"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time."

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"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."

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"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."

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"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together."

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"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."

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"But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."

"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."

"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."

"I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business."

"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."

"A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."

"Education is the cheap defense of nations."

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."

"Facts are to the mind what food is to the body."

"You can never plan the future by the past."

"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."

"When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

"Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none."

"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government."

"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."

"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."

"He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls."

"Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy."

"Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls."

"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together."

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

"If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue."

"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."

"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."

"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination."

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

"When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

"Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco."

"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination."

"To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men."

"It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs."

"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."

"There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations."

"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."

"Our patience will achieve more than our force."

"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."

"When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

"Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement."

"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together."

"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."

"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."

"All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice."

"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference."

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."

"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."

"Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel."

"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."

"You can never plan the future by the past."

"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time."

"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."

"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."

"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together."

"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."

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