Quotes by James Fenimore Cooper - Page 1

Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.
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Battles
Discussed
Unlike
Rarely
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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
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All Things
Mediocrity
Tendency
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Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
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Ignorance
Mathematical
Relation
Bear
Close
Superstition
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Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
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Appreciated
Effects
Particular
Exceptions
Systems
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No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
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Active
Civilized
Civilized Society
Stronger
Bosom
Exist
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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
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Legislation
Purpose
Sole
Vicious
Corrupt
Defeating
Leads
Sole Purpose
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The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
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Abuse
Disposition
Majority
Mend
Nor
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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
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Abuse
Ambition
Faults
Effect
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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Democracy
Form
Opinion
Public Opinion
Tyranny
Usual
Public
Exhibit
Substitute
Masses
Vice
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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.
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Agency
Aim
Evil
Governing
Produce
Nature Good Evil
Principle
Proper
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It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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Democracy
Form
Law
Opinion
Public Opinion
Tyranny
Usual
Public
Exhibit
Substitute
Masses
Vice
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Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
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Break
Consequence
Given
Opinion
Public Opinion
States
United States
Public
Direction
False
Shall
Whenever
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Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
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Quality
Breeding
Candor
Gentleman
Honest
Honest Man
Proof
Tone
Belongs
Equally
Frame
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America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.
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Exaggerated
Colonies
Establishing
Instrumental
Opinions
Owes
Prejudices
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All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.
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Common Sense
Majority
Plausible
Recourse
Combinations
Expense
Individuals
Sacrifices
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The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
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Business
Consulting
Embrace
Life World Rest
Life Business World
Affairs
Rest
Interests
Multitude
Reasons
Visionary
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All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
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Character
Common
Dependent
Existence
Greatness
Individuality
Mediocrity
Man
Any
Around
He
Him
Other
Which
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Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with other capitals, I think it is entitled to a distinguished place in this particular.
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Distinguished
Entitled
Reputation
Condemn
Great Deal
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I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their views; the word not being too comprehensive for the crowds and groupings of objects that are visible from their arches.
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Bridges
Comprehensive
Crowds
Objects
Tire
Views
Visible
Gaze
Speaking
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A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
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Active
Depends
Enterprising
Expensive
Monarchy
Power Government Must
Forms
Costly
Intimidate
Parade
Requiring
Rule
Strengthen
Whom
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All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.
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Add
Artificial
Unnecessary
Abstain
Accumulate
Consequences
Aid
Good Government
Increasing
Inequalities
Unavoidable
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Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
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Creatures
Ease
Enjoy
Neighbor
Plenty
Coat
Fellow
Fellow Creatures
Wear
Meal
Otherwise
Sinful
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They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.
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Flattering
Theory
Nature Good Man
Boldly
Effecting
Maxim
Morals
Neither
Nor
Popular
Revealed
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It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Accord
Formidable
Greater
Liberty
License
Servant
Borne
Master
Engine
Induced
Misfortune
Obtain
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The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
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Inequality
Office
Parent
Wealth
Citizen
Controlling
Preferred
Repository
Superior
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
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Aim
Freeman
Individuality
Leaving
Liberty
Pursue
Citizen
Manner
Political Liberty
Render
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It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a reasonable degree of graphic effect, what he has seen, will not fail to carry the reader with him; for the interest we all feel in personal adventure is, of itself, success.
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Adventure
Amusing
Graphic
Reader
Reasonable
Commonly
Difficult Task
Fail
Task
Travels
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The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read.
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Burning
Delight
Hunting
Novelty
Pleasure
Wonder
Finds
Forest
Gaze
Greatest Pleasure
Memorials
Quest
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I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination?
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Religion
Imagination
Abstract
Aids
Catholic
Educated
Higher
Inseparable
Order
Philosopher
Principles
Purity
Wish
Affections
Conceive
Divest
Necessarily
Unite
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Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.
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Ignorant
Improving
Labour
Neglect
Parent
Submit
Acquisitions
Apt
Current
Finds
Possesses
Quietly
Shrink
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