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We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.
From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.
It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.
Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.
Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?
Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.
When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.
Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.
But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.
But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.
But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?
I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.
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