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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
- Nov 07, 2020
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
- Dislike
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- Nov 07, 2020
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
- Navy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
- Caricature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
- Object
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- Nov 07, 2020
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
- Birth
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
- Dialects
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- Nov 07, 2020
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
- Exalt
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- Nov 07, 2020
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
- Gallery
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
- Preserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reform, that we may preserve.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
- Maxim
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020