Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
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I have no predilection for unpopularity as such, but I hold it much preferable to the popularity of a day, which perishes with the transient topic upon which it is grounded.
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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
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It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?
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