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Thomas Alva Edison

American inventor

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
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The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
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The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it [The Territory] is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.
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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
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And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
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History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamit
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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
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Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is ph
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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
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The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
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The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
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In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn
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Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
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She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
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A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.
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The English Bible: a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
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The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it be
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