"The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees."
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"Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies."
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"Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness."
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"The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear."
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"It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise."
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"Early and provident fear is the mother of safety."
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"Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits."
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"There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives."
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"If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue."
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"Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm."
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"Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation."
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"You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe."
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"Evil succeeds when good men do nothing"
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"As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth."
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"A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood."
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"Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them."
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"Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state."
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"It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations upon the cause of it. I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind in their politics."
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"In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But theworks of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute."
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"For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity."
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