The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct.
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
We have called this our Decade of Gibbons. We expected to win this ourselves. We are a young team, but when you win something for 10 straight years, you don't want that loss on your watch.
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
Westward the star of empire takes its way.
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
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