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" To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. "

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" In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. "

" Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. "

" A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. "

" Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. "

" Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. "

" There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. "

" Good order is the foundation of all things. "

" Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. "

" The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. "

" Ambition can creep as well as soar. "

" All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. "

" The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. "

" Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. "

" The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. "

" Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits. "

" In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. "

" To innovate is not to reform. "

" Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. "

" When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. "

" Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. "

" Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. "

" Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. "

" To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. "

" Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. "

" He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. "

" Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. "

" But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. "

" Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. "

" It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. "