The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it is worth.
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The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.
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The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.
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The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
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