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For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

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Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

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Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

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Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

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No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

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The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

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Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

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Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

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The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

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Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

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It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

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Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

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Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

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If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

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Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

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