It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.
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Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.Hosea Ballou
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
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Never be so brief as to become obscure.
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Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
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