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Nothing strengthens men, nothing makes them so hard to hear reason, nothing so drives them to extremity in opinion or in action as persecution or proscription.
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Hoar reflects on the negative effects of persecution and proscription on individuals' reasoning and actions.
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Edward Everett preached a sermon when he was twenty-four years old before a large audience in the Representatives Chamber at Washington which was heard with breathless silence.
It would have been a worse civil war than that of the Rebellion, because the country would have been divided not by sections, but by parties.
Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
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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