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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.
James F. Cooper
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.
James F. Cooper
The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.
James F. Cooper
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.
James F. Cooper
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
James F. Cooper
It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.
James F. Cooper
There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.
James F. Cooper
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.
James F. Cooper
No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognise, in the repose which now reigns in the ancient mart of Rhode Island, a place that, in its day, has been ranked amongst the most important ports along the whole line of our extended coast.
James F. Cooper
Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of a forest, child?
James F. Cooper
Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.
James F. Cooper
Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.
James F. Cooper
The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.
James F. Cooper
An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and dates, but the love of that higher truth, the truth of nature and principals, which is a primitive law of the human mind.
James F. Cooper
Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.
James F. Cooper
Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.
James F. Cooper
Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
James F. Cooper
Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.
James F. Cooper
Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.
James F. Cooper
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.
James F. Cooper
