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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Appearance Being Gives Habit
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Approve Brave Business Conduct
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Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
Bear Benefits Fatigue Great
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
Good Hundred More Priests
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Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

All Religions Always Any Established
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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Abolish Act Association Begins
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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Country Good Religion World
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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Angels Character God Know
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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Only Possibilities Reason We
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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

Accord Act Bolt Classes
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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Hereditary Ought Planning Posterity
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Acquired Efforts Encourage Endeavor
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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
Consideration Direction Magnitude Taken
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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Horizon Last Liberty Men
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My mind is my own church.
Church Mind My Own Own
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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Approve Business Conduct Conscience
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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Brethren Country Good Mankind
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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Believe Believing Consist Consists
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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

Best Blessing Even Every
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That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

Easily Esteem Lightly Obtain
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Human nature is not of itself vicious.
Human Human Nature Itself Nature
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Again Begin Our Over
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Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

Every Nickname Nicknames Title
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To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Abolish Any Branches Establish
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If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Child Day May Must
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But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Appearing Ask Liberty Nature
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It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

Acres Battle Cause Consequences
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Always Moderation Principle Temper
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Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

Basis Cannot Discover Every
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An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Army Cannot Penetrate Principles
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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

Affront Falsehood Treat Complaisance
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Everything Fountain Gladness Heart
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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Back Become Brothers Brothers And Sisters
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Affections History Life Life Is A
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

Acting Always Being Fulfilled
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The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Ability Blaming Down Easiest
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Age Feeling Matter Years
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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Doing Greatest Growing Learning
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Above Great Great Minds Little
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They who drink beer will think beer.

Beer Drink Think Who
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Almost Create Disadvantage Every
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

Between Come Empty End
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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Adversity Broad Dark Daylight
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

Hero His Idol Our
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Age Constant Grows Never
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

Affliction Brood Cherish Consider
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

About Communion Contact Dignity
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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Attend Because Business Courts
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

Always Among Away Clouds
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

Abroad Apt Discipline Home
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