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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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The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
— Charles Lamb
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I am never less alone than when alone.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to…
— John Owen
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While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph…
— Susan Sontag
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You are an eternal being now on the pathway of endless unfoldment, never less but always more yourself. Life is not static. It is…
— Ernest Holmes
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I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
— Peter O'Toole
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
— Jonathan Swift
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Then never less alone than when alone.
— Samuel Rogers
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I am then never less alone than when alone
— William Hazlitt
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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never…
— Allen Tate
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You are never stuck, unless you are choosing to stay there. You are never limited, unless you choose to limit yourself. You…
— Jennifer O'Neill
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One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out…
— William Hazlitt
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