~Zealot.~--When we see an eager assailant of one of these wrongs, a
special reformer, we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to
your one virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?--_Emerson._
What I object to Scotch philosophers in general is, that they reason
upon man as they would upon a divinity; they pursue truth without caring
if it be useful truth.--_Sydney Smith._
I have never known a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his
head or heart somewhere or other.--_Coleridge._
They have an idol, to which they consecrate themselves high-priests, and
deem it holy work to offer sacrifices of whatever is most
precious.--_Hawthorne._
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The end crowns all; and that old common arbitrator, Time, will one day
end all.--_Shakespeare._