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• Fearful concatenation of circumstances. -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Argument on the Murder of Captain White, April 6, 1830, Vol.
  vi, p. 88...
• There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Argument on the Murder of Captain White, April 6, 1830, Vol....
• There is nothing so powerful as truth,--and often nothing so strange.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Argument on the Murder of Captain White, April 6, 1830, Vol....
• Our crude civilization engenders a multitude of wants, and law-givers are ever at their wit's end devising.
  The hall and the theater and the church have been invented, and compulsory education....
• Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery
  do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant?...
• Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery
  do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant?...
• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
  It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. -- Nelson Mandela...
• Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.
  -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) -- Address, New York City, Feb. 21, 1859...
• Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock.
  Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history....