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One murder made a villain,
Millions, a hero.


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War its thousands slays, Peace, its ten thousands.

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In sober state,
Through the sequestered vale of rural life,
The venerable patriarch guileless held
The tenor of his way.


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Teach him how to live,
And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.


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The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

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Born: May 8, 1731
Died: May 13, 1809 (aged 78)
Bio: Beilby Porteus, successively Bishop of Chester and of London was a Church of England reformer and a leading abolitionist in England. He was the first Anglican in a position of authority to seriously challenge the Church's position on slavery.

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