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A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

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Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

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The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

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The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

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Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

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The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

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To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: August 25th, 1800

Died: December 28th, 1859

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