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There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired. - Author object (28)

I am one thing, my writings are another. - Author object (28)

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. - Author object (28)

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures. - Author object (567)

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy. - Author object (567)

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. - Author object (567)

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. - Author object (567)

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart. - Author object (567)

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. - Author object (99)

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. - Author object (99)

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. - Author object (99)

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give. - Author object (99)

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it - Author object (99)

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. - Author object (99)

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Author object (99)

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing. - Author object (99)

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies. - Author object (99)

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. - Author object (99)

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged. - Author object (99)

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society. - Author object (99)