Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
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Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
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As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
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It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
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