Alexander Hamilton:
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share in the government... Can a democratic assembly who annually revolve in the mass of the people be supposed steadily to pursue the public good?

Joseph Joubert quotes

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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