Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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