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Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the…
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The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
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It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.
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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and…
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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
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That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it…
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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we…
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.…
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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought…
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Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.
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Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
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I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
— John Clare
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Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the…
— David Hume
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Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.
— George Washington
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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I…
— Thomas Traherne
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If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho[ugh] popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do…
— Richard Rumbold
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I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to…
— William Whipple
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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
— Ben Horowitz
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How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?
— Joel Barlow
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Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.
— Michael Davitt
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What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but…
— Frederick Tennyson
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