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The Tendency Of Democracies Is, In All Things, To Mediocrity.

Christ, In The Parable Of The Vine Dressers, Has Taught Us A Sublime Lesson Of Justice, By Showing That To The Things Which Are Not Our Own, We Can Have No Just Claim.

It Is A Governing Principle Of Nature, That The Agency Which Can Produce Most Good, When Perverted From Its Proper Aim, Is Most Productive Of Evil. It Behooves The Well-intentioned, Therefore, Vigorously To Watch The Tendency Of Even Their Most Highly Prized Institutions, Since That Which Was Established In The Interests Of The Right, May So Easily Become The Agent Of The Wrong.

America Owes Most Of Its Social Prejudices To The Exaggerated Religious Opinions Of The Different Sects Which Were So Instrumental In Establishing The Colonies.

Friendship That Flows From The Heart Cannot Be Frozen By Adversity, As The Water That Flows From The Spring Cannogt Congeal In Winter.