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A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.  
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.  
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of...  
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.  
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.  
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies...   History
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.  
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my e...  
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I h...  
I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.  
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tend...  
I was never less alone than when by myself.  
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mo...  
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all t...  
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the...  
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.  
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.   Business
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.  
Style is the image of character.  
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has ...  
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common q...  
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of ...  
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particul...  
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.  
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice...  
The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authoriz...  
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator...  
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious histor...  
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,...  
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contes...