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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
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In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.