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Dirt is matter in the wrong place.
Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.
There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
We have no permanent allies, only permanent interests.
Dirt is not dirty, but only something in the wrong place.
What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.
There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.
Large republics seem to be essentially and inherently aggressive.
I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.
So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.
Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!
Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.
We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.
Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gottingen.
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.
Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.
If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!
The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who went mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it
Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.
Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many Things Much worse than war. The maintenance of the Ottoman Empire belongs to the First Class, the Occupation of Turkey by Russia belongs to the Second.
Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I know not, indeed, whether it be a greater and more difficult exercise of magnanimity, for the one party to act as if he had forgotten, or for the other as if he constantly remembered the obligation.