• Thought and Reason

  In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

  3.1 · 44 votes · 195 reads

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• Various

  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

  4.5 · 64 votes · 127 reads

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• Government and Politics

  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.

  4.9 · 43 votes · 93 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

  3.9 · 64 votes · 84 reads

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• Society

  She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

  4.1 · 46 votes · 116 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

  4.8 · 40 votes · 119 reads

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• Various

  The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

  4.0 · 16 votes · 59 reads

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• Society

  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.

  4.9 · 20 votes · 39 reads

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• Virtues

  The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

  3.0 · 28 votes · 6 reads

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• Various

  The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

  3.5 · 13 votes · 73 reads

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• Society

  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

  5.0 · 19 votes · 161 reads

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• Government and Politics

  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.

  3.7 · 14 votes · 8 reads

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• Various

  Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

  4.5 · 24 votes · 19 reads

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• Various

  We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

  4.3 · 45 votes · 42 reads

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• Government and Politics

  We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

  4.9 · 6 votes · 124 reads

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