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- To perceive is to suffer.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.
- Ausonius
- Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read.
- Ausonius
- He is the better equipped for life. As for swimming, who has the less to carry.
- Apuleius (124 AD - 170 AD)
- Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right.
- Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
- Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
- Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878)
- The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
- William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879)
- In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.
- Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926)
- From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.
- Charles Sumner (1811 - 1874)
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