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/ page 729 of 1205 /To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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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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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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