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Reason to rule but mercy to forgive The first is the law, the last prerogative. - John Dryden
Johnson
Rigid justice is the greatest injustice. - Thomas Fuller
Rodriguez
And who delights in slaughter
White
Our American past always speaks to us with two voices the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him Citizens ask, What do they mean to us Historians are trained to seek the original meaning all of us want to know the present meaning. - Daniel J. Boorstin
Miller
One man may hit the mark, another blunder but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Evans
Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. - Peter Minard
Taylor
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. - Aristotle
Barnes
A contented mind is the best source for trouble. - Titus Maccius Plautus
Edwards
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them - Friedrich Nietzsche
James
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate. - La Rochefoucauld
Williams
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