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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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