Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech in cantankerous.
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A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.
Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
