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We can all perceive the differ...

We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

The sun had not risen, but the...

The sun had not risen, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning, softness that 'brings and shuts the day,' while the whole air was filled with the carols of birds, the hymns of the feathered tribe.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

Hope is the most treacherous o...

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

It was a feature peculiar to t...

It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and apparently an impervious boundary of forests severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

The sublimity connected with v...

The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

A single glance at the map wil...

A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

Near the centre of that State ...

Near the centre of that State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical definitions, of mountains and valleys.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

Much was said and written, at ...

Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

No one, who is familiar with t...

No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognise, in the repose which now reigns in the ancient mart of Rhode Island, a place that, in its day, has been ranked amongst the most important ports along the whole line of our extended coast.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

It is better for a man to die ...

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

The ability to discriminate be...

The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

God planted the seeds of all t...

God planted the seeds of all the trees,' continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, 'and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

tis hard to live in a world wh...

tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

The disposition of all power i...

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. Unrestrained political authority, though it be confided to masses, cannot be trusted without positive limitations, men in bodies being but an aggregation of the passions, weaknesses and interests of men as individuals.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

The sight of a coward's blood ...

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

I do not pretend that all that...

I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized...

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

We are all human, and all do w...

We are all human, and all do wrong.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

The American doctrinaire is th...

The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

All greatness of character is ...

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

When men struggle for the sing...

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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