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"Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere."
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"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."
War
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
Government
"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."
Home
"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
Government
"In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority."
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"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."
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"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"
Learning
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
Enemy
"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."
Home
"The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science."
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"Beyond the edge of universe,there's a kind of real darkness...where even the light gone astray."
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"On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before."
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"Darkness never lasts forever. Morning always comes with the lights of love to brighten our future."
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"It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity."
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"I huddle in the dark with a mass of burnt matches strewn at my feet. And yet, for all of those matches I've not been able to light a single candle. And huddled in such deep darkness, I've somehow yet to realize that Christmas made both matches and candles forever obsolete."
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"If there's a place for me in Hell I hope it's next to someone like you."
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"Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well."
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"The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily."
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"Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair."
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"I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light."
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