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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of…
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
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A good intention clothes itself with power.
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Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his…
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of…
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Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
— Charles Baudelaire
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If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
— Marlon Brando
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
— Lucretius
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We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so…
— Greg Norman
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Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
— Thomas Browne
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Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness.…
— Pierre Charron
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I’m an executioner, Leta, hence my Demon nickname. They send me in to take the heads off people and gods who’ve stepped…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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