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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

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'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.

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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

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Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

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To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

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Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

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Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

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The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

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American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.

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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

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