Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.


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Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
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But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
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Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of th...
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The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic e...
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The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England.
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Calamity is man's true touchstone
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Illustrious Predecessor.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, ...
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifi...
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
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But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for...
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; i...
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to...
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upo...
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and ...
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it w...
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoder...
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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