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A book may be compared to the life of your neighbor. If it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early. - [Books] A hero is--as though one should say--a man of high achievement, who performs famous exploits--who does things that are heroical, and in all his actions and demeanor is a hero indeed. - [Heroes] Fear never was a friend to the love of God or man, to duty or conscience, truth, probity, or honor. It therefore can ever make a good subject, a good citizen, or a good soldier, and, least of all, a good Christian; except the devils, who believe and tremble, are to be accounted good Christians. - [Fear] God is all love; it is He who made everything, and He loves everything that He has made. - [God] If there be a crime of deeper dye than all the guilty train of human vices, it is ingratitude. - [Ingratitude] In the age of acorns, antecedent to Ceres and the loyal ploughman Triptolemus, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds that glowed in the mines of India. - [Agriculture] Man is by nature weak; he is born in and to a state of dependence; he therefore naturally seeks and looks about for help, and where he observes the greatest power, it is there that he applies and prays for protection. - [Man] . . . for righteous monarchs, Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see; To rule o'er freemen, should themselves be free. - Earl of Essex (act I) [Freedom] Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, Howe'er his own commence, can never be But an usurper. - Gustavus Vasa (act IV, sc. 1) [Tyranny]
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