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It enters into the fate of republics, and will endure after the fashion of this world passeth away.
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Hoar reflects on the lasting impact of moral considerations on the fate of republics.
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Never rode to the wrong's redressing A worthier paladin.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
Judge Hoar never doubted that the service of a clean, able, upright Circuit Court, appointed without political influence, and entirely acceptable to the public, was well worth the sacrifice.
His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
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