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"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
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"As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked."

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."

"Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death."

"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."

"Fornication is a snare that a person sets for himself."

"She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell.Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it.And it's delicious."

"Fornication deprives a person of his spiritual covering."

"Everything Satan has to offer you is a collection of what Jesus rejected, it is the garbage bin of Jesus Christ. Matthew 4:1-17."

"There's nothing wrong with the fire.. if you don't get too close. - Patch."

"As I stare at it,I can feel little invisible strings,silently tugging me toward it. I have to touch it. I have to wear it. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen."
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"Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival."


"What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose."


"No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place."


"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."


"The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public and more trouble to me than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be Does he use ardent spirits?"


"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."
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