The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Burke, Edmund
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.
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It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity.
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