Quotes by Rufus Choate - Page 1

A book is the only immortality.
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Book
Immortality
Reading
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Knowledge is power as well as fame.
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Knowledge
Fame
Knowledge Is Power
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Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
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Argument
Irony
Sarcasm
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No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
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Bible Study
Ignorant
Lawyer
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Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.
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Power
Liable
Reactions
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The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.
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Government
Ends
Finals
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We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
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Common
Oracles
Temples
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We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.
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Patriotism
Doe
Party
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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
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Genuine
Passionate
Passionate Love
Reading
Youth
Fast
Held
Laid
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Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
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Independence
Constitution
Oratory
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The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.
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War
Insane
Passion
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Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.
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Cat
Onions
Worship
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Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.
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Important
May
Students
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There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.
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Kings
Law
People
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I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.
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Honor
Law
Looks
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You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.
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Air
Association
Want
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Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.
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Equality
Justice
Law
Numbers
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All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, - all change, - all permanence, - the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, - all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit.
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War
Adversity
Stars
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