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Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging the affections and enlarging the understanding, that the heart can be meliorated or principles be formed; for like a bow forcibly bent, the mind recoils from oppression with elastic power.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Mary Hays
Born:
October 13, 1759
Died:
February 20, 1843
(aged 83)
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Mary Hays was an autodidact intellectual who published essays, poetry, novels, and several works on famous women.
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