Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect. - George Bancroft

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The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

George Bancroft

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

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Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

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Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

Eagle, Eagles, Fall, Government, Like

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

Desire, Ennui, Fit, Gratifying, Mean

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

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Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

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Olivia Williams

I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!

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George Gobel

Where I play, the greens always break toward the bar.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

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Colin Firth

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions. . . the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

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Henry Ward Beecher