No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as … - Henry Ward Beecher

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What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.

Henry Ward Beecher

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

Hard, Ignorant, Intelligent, People

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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

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Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

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Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

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Benjamin Franklin

In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.

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Orson Welles

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

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David Levithan

teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke.

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Paul Feig

God does things that fly completely in the face of what we've all been taught that He is supposed to do and every time He does this, we all just say, 'Oh, well, I guess there must be some good reason why He did that.

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Francis Atterbury