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Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blessed.
No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?"
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.
And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
A Truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent
Dark-heaving;—boundless, endless, and sublime— The image of Eternity.
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.
There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of Genius.
Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white.
The Conservatives…being by the law of their existence the stupidest party.
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
True happinesse Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth, and choice.
True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul.