That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.

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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

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The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

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