"The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it."

-- Hosea Ballou

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“This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.”
“I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.”
“Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.”
“For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?”
“New York is not a city to return to in defeat.”
“Let us not become the evil that we deplore.”

Source : Statement in Opposition to H.J. Res. 64, delivered 14 September 2001
“Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.”
“One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.”

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