"The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own."

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"Custom reconciles us to everything."

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"Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures."

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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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"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle."

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"In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered."

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"The cold neutrality of an impartial judge."

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"And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them."

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"People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors."

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"A wise and salutary neglect."

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"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

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"Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour."

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"The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear."

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"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."

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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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"The march of the human mind is slow."

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"There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world."

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"There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue."

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"You can never plan the future by the past."

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"Early and provident fear is the mother of safety."

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"All government,--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act,--is founded on compromise and barter."

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"In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function."

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"Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren."

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"Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains."

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"It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old."

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"Fierce warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song."

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"A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine."

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"The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne; For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed As by his manners."

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"What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature."

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"Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?"

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"Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous Prime."

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"Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound."

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"Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place."

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"Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall!"

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"Be bolde, Be bolde, and everywhere, Be bold."

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"For all that faire is, is by nature good; That is a signe to know the gentle blood."

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"How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!"

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"As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing."

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"I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason."

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"No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd."

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"I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see."

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"Entire affection hateth nicer hands."

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"For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For soule is forme, and doth the bodie make."

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"The noblest mind the best contentment has."

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"Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled."

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"Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew."

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"To kerke the narre from God more farre, Has bene an old-sayd sawe; And he that strives to touche a starre Oft stombles at a strawe."

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"For we by conquest, of our soveraine might, And by eternall doome of Fate's decree, Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright."

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"For all that Nature by her mother-wit Could frame in earth."

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"Tell her the joyous Time will not be staid, Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take."

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