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When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

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He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.

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Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

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Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

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And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.

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Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

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Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.

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I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them.

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Ancestral voices prophesying war.

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You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

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A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.

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A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

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We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

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In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

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The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.

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One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

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I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.

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A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

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