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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."

"Every bond is a bond to sorrow."

"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth."

"Pleasure can turn the body into a slave. Desire can turn the mind into a fool. Passion can turn the heart into a beast. Love can turn the soul into an angel."
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"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."

"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."

"If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth."

"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred."

"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."

"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."

"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."

"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul."
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