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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.



I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.



Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts



Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then



It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.



A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.



He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.



Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor



The idol is the measure of the worshipper.



A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.



Light is the symbol of truth.



Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.



There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates



Endurance is the crowning quality…



It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.








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