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It is hard to toil through life for a great purpose, with a conviction that it will be in vain; but possibly seed now sown may bring forth some good fruits.
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Quincy reflects on the challenges of pursuing a noble purpose despite doubts about its success.
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A single breath blew all his mock-judicial array into air and smoke.
But the first principles of morals and politics, which have long been settled, acquire the authority of self-evident truths, which, when first discussed, may have been vehemently and portentously contested.
Can you wonder that they shrink from the light of free discussion--that they skulk from the grasp of freedom and of truth?
This rendered it more unavoidable that the remainder of the continent should ultimately be ours.
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