What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good.
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The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
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Is it so bad to be misunderstood Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.
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A good intention but fixed and resolute bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment and even obstacles and opposition will but make us 'like the fabled specter-ships,' which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
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