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If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. ↗

— George Herbert

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. ↗

— George Herbert

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Night is the mother of counsels. ↗

— George Herbert

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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. ↗

— George Herbert

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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. ↗

— George Herbert

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