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| Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. |
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| Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. |
| Men; Religion |
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| Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. |
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| Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. |
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| She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one |
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| Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. |
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| Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. |
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| So to be patriots as not to forget that we are gentlemen. |
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| Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. |
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| Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. |
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| Some decent, regulated preeminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolite |
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| 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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| Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman, but he cannot make a gentleman. |
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| Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. |
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| That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth |
| Liberty; People; Security |
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| The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. |
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| The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. |
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