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There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize the hour of…

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One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either…
Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded…
There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize…
Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .…
In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.
There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we…
Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and…
Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.
Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so…
The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous…

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There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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