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We are all human, and all do wrong.

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Individuality is the aim of political liberty.
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The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.
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Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations on a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants.
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Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.
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Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.
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Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
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God has given the salt lick to the deer and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst.
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In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.
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Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?
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The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
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I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.
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History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
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Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
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How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.
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There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.
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We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true though happily for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating, if not excusing its crimes.
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God planted the seeds of all the trees, continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.
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Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.
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Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim.
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