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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
— Francis Bacon
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Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine,…
— William Temple
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
— Thomas Browne
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Nature's old felicities.
— William Wordsworth
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But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them.…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their…
— Thomas Jefferson
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These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
— Victor Hugo
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Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our…
— Seneca the Younger
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