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“These are the times that try men’s souls.”
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“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
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“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”
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“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
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“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead.”
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“The world will be happier when the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
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“Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.”
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“Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
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“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.”
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“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”
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“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” ADOPTION QUOTES FOR BIRTH MOTHERS
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“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”
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“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”
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“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.”
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“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
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“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
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“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.”
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“Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles. He can only discover them.”
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“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.”
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“It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.”
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“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”