“Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.”
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
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