Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
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People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
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A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
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