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The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles. ↗

— Robert Toombs

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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. ↗

— George Washington

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To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

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Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

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Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us. ↗

— William Ames

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The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it. ↗

— William Temple

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God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

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This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

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That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support. ↗

— Lysander Spooner

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