“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
