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We are born for a higher destiny than earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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Strike from mankind the principle of Faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.

Caxtoniana (1862)

To the man who aspires to know, no man who has been the meanest student of knowledge should be unknown.

Zanoni (1842)

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light—every eye looking on finds its own.

Caxtoniana (1862)

Happy the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!

The Last of the Barons (1843)

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.

Richelieu (1839)

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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