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“Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.”

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O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,…

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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

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The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

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All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

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Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest…

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What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

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Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My…

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Thought will not work except in silence.

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