"But truth is most likely to be exhibited……" — Mercy Otis Warren
"But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man."
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Mercy Otis Warren
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30 Quotes by Mercy Otis Warren
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The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.
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The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of…
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It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of…
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Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.
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The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.
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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests…
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The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
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The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion…
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Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government…
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The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified…
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A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the…
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It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy
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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity…
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For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help…
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes…
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The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise…
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If you find your sustenance in Christ, my dear young people, and if you live profoundly in him as did…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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For each one of you, as for the apostles, the encounter with the divine Teacher who calls you friends may…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Those who allow themselves to be led by the Spirit understand that placing oneself at the service of the Gospel…
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May all our contemporaries stand beside their brothers and sisters in humanity. Each one of you is called by Christ…
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People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts…
— Fritz Haber
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I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society…
— Albert Hofmann
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In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries…
— Marjory Stephenson
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