It is a lesson

It is a lesson
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
  

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Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge
There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.
To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.
Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again
The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.
All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.
My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.
Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.
Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.
WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.