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Perseverance Is An Active Principle, And Cannot Continue To Operate But Under The Influence Of Desire.

Books Are The Depositary Of Everything That Is Most Honourable To Man.

My Mind Was Bursting With Depression And Anguish. I Muttered Imprecations And Murmuring As I Passed Along. I Was Full Of Loathing And Abhorrence Of Life, And All That Life Carries In Its Train.

Justice Is The Sum Of All Moral Duty.

I Shall Attempt To Prove Two Things: First, That The Actions And Dispositions Of Mankind Are The Offspring Of Circumstances And Events, And Not Of Any Original Determination That They Bring Into The World; And, Secondly, That The Great Stream Of Our Voluntary Actions Essentially Depends, Not Upon The Direct And Immediate Impulses Of Sense, But Upon The Decisions Of The Understanding.