"They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak."
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"Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review."
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"There is something magnificent in having a country to love."
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"Stern men with empires in their brains."
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"What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral."
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"Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern."
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"Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough."
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"Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime."
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"The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next."
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"Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint."
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"Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field."
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"The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out."
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"This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion."
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"Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality."
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"And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl."
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"The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience."
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"Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy."
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"A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic."
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"Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how."
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"A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes."
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