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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 evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing…
— Thomas Jefferson
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You gain nothing by becoming cowards.
— Swami Vivekananda
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There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.
— Michel de Montaigne
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I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.
— Os Guinness
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There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep…
— Frederick Lenz
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Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition,…
— Michel de Montaigne
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We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with…
— Charles Lamb
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If you risk nothing you gain nothing
— Bear Grylls
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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angles, but am note nice, I am only a resounding gong or…
— Benjamin Carson
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It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t…
— Emile M. Cioran
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