"The march of the human mind is slow."
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"That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours."
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"The ocean is an object of no small terror."
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"Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence."
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"The traveller has reached the end of the journey!"
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"Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy."
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"By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression."
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"The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands."
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"Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles."
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"General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked."
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"The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny."
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"The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success."
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"Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man."
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"When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be."
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"The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment."
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"But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution."
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"A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words."
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"The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken."
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"The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze."
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"Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security."
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