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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold read more
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
A politician thinks of the next election -- a statesman, of the next generation.
A politician thinks of the next election -- a statesman, of the next generation.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one read more
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.\r\n
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less read more
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
It is not a revolt, it is a revolution.
[Fr., Ce n'est pas une revolte, c'est une revolution.]
It is not a revolt, it is a revolution.
[Fr., Ce n'est pas une revolte, c'est une revolution.]
O God! that one might read the book of fate,
And see the revolution of the times
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O God! that one might read the book of fate,
And see the revolution of the times
Make mountains level. and the continent,
Weary of solid firmness, melt itself
Into the sea!
