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“A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.”

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In the nature of things, those who have no property and see their neighbors possess much more than they think them to need, cannot…

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“Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!”

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If we work on marble it will perish. If we work on brass, time will efface it. If we raise temples, they will crumble to dust. But if we work on men's immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with just fear of God and love of their fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which time cannot…

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This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through once every year. It is a book of all others for lawyers, as well as divines; and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and of rules for conduct. It fits…

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Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist…

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There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the…

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Faith puts God between us and our circumstances.

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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

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The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God; but it…

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Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and…

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When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.

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If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.

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I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

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Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less…

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I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief more complex and more textured, more real. Good writing unsettles, destroys both the author and the reader. From my perspective, there always has to be a tension between the writer and the monolithic elements of…

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The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too…

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To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts.

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