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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military…
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit…
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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
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Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common…
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The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that…
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Style is the image of character.
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I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.…
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'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image…
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So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief…
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The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never…
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In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.
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Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.
— James Madison
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I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I…
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I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
— Andrew Jackson
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Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.
— Jack Kornfield
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As we are now engaged in this contest, all my wishes, all my desires and all the energies of my hand and…
— Jubal Early
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All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.
— Winston Churchill
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As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my…
— Manfred von Richthofen
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When I was a kid I used to tell myself the moon was a silver gong and if I could climb high…
— John Dos Passos
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I have found it very important...to let go of my wishes and start hoping.
— Henri Nouwen
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I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
— Edward Gibbon
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Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have…
— Francesco Guicciardini
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This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best…
— David Benioff
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