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«The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.»
«The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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«The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.»
«Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
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adequate, adequate to, enlightened, enterprise, Labor Day, motive, proposes, proposing, selfishness, socialism, substitute
«Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.»
«Thus this most secret science has been explained by Me, O sinless Arjuna. Having understood this, one becomes enlightened and one's all duties are accomplished.»
«PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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accordingly, derived, enlightened, enlightening, free state, higher, higher power, independent, recognize, The Independent, The State, treats
«The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive, but in spite of their religion, not because of it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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enlightened, progressive, so-called, The So
«Those people, within whose hearts the Lord abides, are radiant and enlightened.»
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