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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.[][]
There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.[][]
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.[][]
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.[][]
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and row brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.[][]
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.[][]
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