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It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

James F. Cooper

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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
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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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History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
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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?
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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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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.
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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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Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
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All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.
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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
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Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.
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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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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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A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.
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Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.
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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 common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
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I can't see no great difference atween givin' up territory afore a war, out of a dread of war, and givin' it up after a war, because we can't help it-unless it be that the last is the most manful and honourable.
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