Rights There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.
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The butterfly the ancient Grecians madeThe soul's fair emblem, and its only name--
But of the soul, escaped the slavish trade
Of mortal life!
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lost to Love and Truth, whose selfish joy
Tasted her vernal sweets, but tasted to destroy!
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A savage place as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon lover
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False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical
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Whether the eave-drops fall Heard only in the trances of the blast, Or if the secret ministry of frost Shall hang them up in silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon.
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