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The Americans... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.
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Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.
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The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.
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Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
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History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
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Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.
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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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As reason and revelation both tell us that this state of being is but a preparation for another of a still higher and more spiritual order, all the interests of life are of comparatively little importance, when put in the balance against the future.
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It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.
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The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
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Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
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The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.
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New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.
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It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.
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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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The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
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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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