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If I shall be in the minority, I shall have those painful sensations which arise from a conviction of being overpowered in a good cause.
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Beveridge reflects on the emotional toll of being in the minority during a debate over important issues.
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No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
Genius, and learning, and consummate skill, Moulding each thought, obedient to the will; Affections pure, as e'er warmed human breast, And love, in blessing others, doubly blest; Virtue unspotted, uncorrupted truth, Gentle in age, and…
In the excitement produced by ardent controversy, gentlemen view the same object through such different media that minds, not infrequently receive therefrom precisely opposite impressions.
These had power To charm through life and cheer his dying hour.
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