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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.

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Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

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Eloquence is in the assembly, not merely in the speaker.

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Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

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A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

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