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"The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable."
"Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs."
"A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience."
"The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honored antiquities."
"While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled."
"Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly; thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee."
"Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring."
"Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes."
"Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on."
"As you may know, I have many good friends in the press who, unfortunately, have thus far refused to identify themselves and go public."
"Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing."
"Information may be free, but an education is priceless."
"Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you."
"We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them."
"One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found."
"The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest purposes."
"I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent."
"May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence"
"The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations."
"Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust."
