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• We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Grief, Evil

  Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton (1711). “Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,”, p.360

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• Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hurt, Soul, Mistress

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.145

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• Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.

  William Shakespeare

  Mistress, Opinion, Effects

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.271

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• Consider how august a privilege it is, when angels are present, and archangels throng around, when cherubim and seraphim encircle with their blaze the throne, that a mortal may approach with unrestrained confidence, and converse with heaven's dread Sovereign! O, what honor was ever conferred like this?

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Angel, August

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 459, 1895.

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• If on creation's morn the king of heaven
  To shrubs and flowers a sovereign lord had given,
  O beauteous rose, he had anointed thee
  Of shrubs and flowers the sovereign lord to be;
  The spotless emblem of unsullied truth,
  The smile of beauty and the glow of youth,
  The garden's pride, the grace of vernal bowers,
  The blush of meadows, and the eye of flowers.

  Henry George Bohn

  Kings, Flower, Eye

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• The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Chinese, Firsts, Reactions

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Taiwan will probably not declare independence. The question isn't independence. The issue is whether Taiwan will declare itself as a sovereign separate state. That will start a huge crisis if that happens.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Issues, Independence, Taiwan

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Giving, Grace, Praise

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1840). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.”, p.854

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• We can each rest in the knowledge that God is sovereign over our life's situation. No matter where we are today or what mistakes we've made in the past, He has given us everything we need to glorify Him right now.

  Joshua Harris

  Mistake, Past, Matter

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• Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.

  Edward Young

  Heart, Sight, Heaven

  Edward Young (1813). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts”, p.51

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• Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Human Nature, Humans

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Truth'

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• Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

  John Locke

  Men, Self, Liberty

  John Locke (1813). “The Conduct of the Understanding: With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon”, p.128

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• A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Citizens, Demand, States

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2010). “The Basic Political Writings (Second Edition)”, p.174, Hackett Publishing

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• So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.

  Michael Howard

  Peace, War, Government

  Michael Howard (1962). “The Causes of Wars and Other Essays”, p.25, Harvard University Press

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• Have I said clearly enough that the Community we created is not an end in itself? It is a process of change, continuing in that same process which in an earlier period produced our national forms of life. The sovereign nations of the past can no longer solve the problems of the present: they cannot ensure their own progress or control their own future. And the Community itself is only a stage on the way of the organized world of tomorrow.

  Jean Monnet

  Past, Community, Progress

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• The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Inquiry, Belief

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Truth'

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• People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?

  Michael Horton

  People, Praying, Ask Me

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• It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them. I do not question that, in an age of instruction and equality like our own, sovereigns might more easily succeed in collecting all political power into their own hands and might interfere more habitually and decidedly with the circle of private interests than any sovereign of antiquity could ever do.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Character, Men, Hands

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy in America - Vol. I. and II.”, p.760, Read Books Ltd

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• Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.

  Robert A. Burton

  Men, Land, Smoking

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• Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

  Robert A. Burton

  Adversity, Two, Hopeful

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• We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills.

  Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

  War, Prussia, Action

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• We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!

  John Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

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• Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

  Francis Bacon

  Business, Men, Fame

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Great Place'

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• The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation: The doctrine of a supreme, intelligent sovereign of the universe, I believe to be the great essential principle of all morality, and consequently of all civilization.

  John Adams

  Believe, Men, Intelligent

  John Adams (1965). “The John Adams papers”

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• A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.

  David Mallet

  People, Inspire, Noble

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