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" It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. "

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" It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood. "

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" Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. "

" The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. "

" A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. "

" No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed. "

" A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. "

" Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. "

" Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. "

" It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. "

" The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. "

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" And what is the greatest number? Number one. "

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" A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. "

" There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves. "

" There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. "

" The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. "

" Custom is the great guide to human life. "

" Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. "

" Everything in the world is purchased by labor. "

" Truth springs from argument amongst friends. "

" The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application. "

" Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. "

" The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. "

" The law always limits every power it gives. "

" A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. "

" Avarice, the spur of industry. "

" It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom. "