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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.