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The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and…
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I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity…
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Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to…
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Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set…
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We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or…
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Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I…
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Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines…
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The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in…
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We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.
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Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.
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A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.
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The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely,…
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I salute you! There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much, that, while I cannot…
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We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as…
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Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang?…
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The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory…
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You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck…
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Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion…
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No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches…
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A sound we can not hear, yet within our hearts it's as loud as thunder. It's a word we can not speak,…
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We have the opportunity of observing her through these delicate and pellucid teguments of the bodies of Insects acting according to her…
— Robert Hooke
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