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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

Henry Ward Beecher

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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
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If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
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Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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