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- Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in…
- life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the…
- I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance…
- Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty…
- He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people…
- Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences…
- I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful…
- I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of…
- I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into…
- If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done…
- What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as…
- To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and…
- The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one…
- One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.
- Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone
- The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public…
- Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never…
- I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect…
- Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our…
- I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that…
- The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with…
- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among…
- The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness,…
- The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
- I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
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- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle