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It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience.
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
When the white man dies, he thinks he is at peace; but the red-men know how to torture even the ghosts of their enemies.
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
Is it justice to make evil and then punish for it?
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
I have listened to all the sounds of the woods for thirty years, as a man will listen whose life and death depend on the quickness of his ears.
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
“'Tis a strange calling!” muttered Hawkeye, with an inward laugh, “to go through life, like a catbird, mocking all the ups and downs that may happen to come out of other men's throats.
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught the calculations of reason, and to render those who should have remembered their manhood, the slaves of the basest passions.
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
It should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed. Thus, in a new country, the woods and other objects, which in an old country would be maintained at great cost, are got rid of, simply with a view of “improving” as it is called.
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
I am on the hill-top, and must go down into the valley; and when Uncas follows in my footsteps, there will no longer be any of the blood of the Sagamores, for my boy is the last of the Mohicans.
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste.
The Last of the Mohicans (1826)