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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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