The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.
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Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it at any rate, brag.
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
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The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community
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The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity Himself from God he could not free He builded better than he knew The conscious stone to beauty grew.
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