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/ page 930 of 1205 /And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man.
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We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
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My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?
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They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.
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My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.
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Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it.
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Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?
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The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
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Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
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Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
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A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.
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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
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The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
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It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
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Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
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If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.
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Primitive societies without religion have never been found.
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Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
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Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
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