Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
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All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.Edmund Burke
Man is by his constitution a religious animal.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman, but he cannot make a gentleman.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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