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They never fail who die in a great cause.
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher’s cleaver.
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.