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When national debts have once been accumulated to a certain degree, there is scarce, I believe, a single instance of their having been fairly and completely paid. The liberation of the public revenue, if it has ever been brought about at …

The greatest part of mankind want leisure or capacity for demonstration, nor can carry a train of proofs, which in that way they must always depend upon for conviction, and cannot be required to assent to till they see the demonstration.

That which we call life, is but hebdomada mortium, a week of death, seven days, seven periods of our life spent in dying, a dying seven times over; and there is an end.

But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.

The unsociable species, on the contrary, are doomed to decay.

You say that you ask only for the Truth and yet you speak like a narrow and ignorant fanatic who refuses to believe in anything but the religion in which he was born. All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very …

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest.

It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.

The Abolitionists were right in their attitude to the Church. Slavery and the Church were side by side: the Church was at peace with slavery: men were sold to build churches, women sold to pay missionaries, and children sold to buy Bibles. …

The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs 'pass,' so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

We know so well what we are doing ourselves and why we do it, do we not? I fancy that there is some truth in the view which is being put forward nowadays, that it is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly …

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

I see the Four-fold Man. The Humanity in deadly sleep, And its fallen Emanation. The Spectre & its cruel Shadow. I see the Past, Present & Future, existing all at once Before me; O Divine Spirit sustain me on thy wings!

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Lost Angel of a ruined Paradise! She knew not 'twas her own; as with no stain She faded, like a cloud which had outwept its rain.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

Each individual bears within himself an ideal man, and to bring him forth in perfect form is his divinely imposed life-work.

That jewelled mass of millinery, That oiled and curled Assyrian Bull.

The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.

their eminent chief alternated between a menace and a sigh.

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-oo-oo!!! I ain't dirty: I washed me face and hands afore I come, I did!