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All political power is a trust. - [Politics] I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war. - [War] It is all very well to tell me that a young man has distinguished himself by a brilliant first speech. He may go on, or he may be satisfied with his first triumph; but show me a young man who has not succeeded at first, and nevertheless has gone on, and I will back that young man to do better than most of those who have succeeded at the first trial. - [Perseverance] Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them. - [Kings] No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked. - see Campbell's "Lives of the Lord Chancellors", vol. V, p. 661 [Wisdom] True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it. True humanity appertains rather to the mind than to the nerves, and prompts men to use real and active endeavors to execute the actions which it suggests. - [Humanity]
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