We are prisoners of ideas.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
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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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Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
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Obedience alone gives the right to command.
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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
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