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Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
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There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
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With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
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The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
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People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
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I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
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What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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