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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

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Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

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To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

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There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

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The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

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That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

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Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

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Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

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Reform, that we may preserve.

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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: August 25th, 1800

Died: December 28th, 1859

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