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Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

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It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to t...more

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I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for the Presidency, made up chiefly of editors, and men...more

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You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

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Politics is the gizzard of society full of gut and gravel.

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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.

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What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.

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This American government—what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant los...more

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Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave t...more

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A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.

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I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a reli...more