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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
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To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime,…
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A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
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In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during…
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The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth,…
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The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there…
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Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose…
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government,…
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There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons…
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right,…
— Malcolm De Chazal
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There are strange moments in life when the mind rests without any kind of worries. When our mind is quiet, when our…
— Samael Aun Weor
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I knew that I would have to be brave. Not foolhardy, not in love with risk and danger, not making ridiculous exhibitions…
— Piper Kerman
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I hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can't be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing…
— Bill Walton
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Another of the hard things about being in a war, grandchildren, is that although there are times of quiet when the fighting…
— Joseph Bruchac
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
— Edmund Waller
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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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It's hard being quiet when one's imagination is so loud
— Unknown Author
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Whatever you may have to do, watch your mind. Also you must have moments of complete inner peace and quiet, when your…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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There is nothing like books - of all things sold incomparably the cheapest, of all pleasure the least palling, they take up…
— Samuel Palmer
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A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm…
— Bruce Hornsby
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