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1. "History shows how feeble are barriers of paper." ~ John Lothrop Motley
2. "In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves." ~ John Lothrop Motley
3. "In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away." ~ John Lothrop Motley
4. "The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs." ~ John Lothrop Motley
5. "The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies." ~ John Lothrop Motley
6. "The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty." ~ John Lothrop Motley
7. "The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests." ~ John Lothrop Motley
8. "Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger." ~ John Lothrop Motley
9. "Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty." ~ John Lothrop Motley
10. "Wealth brings strength, strength confidence." ~ John Lothrop Motley
11. "When did one man ever civilize a people?" ~ John Lothrop Motley
12. "With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people." ~ John Lothrop Motley
13. "The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken." ~ John Lothrop Motley
14. "A good lawyer is a bad Christian." ~ John Lothrop Motley
15. "A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold." ~ John Lothrop Motley
16. "A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman." ~ John Lothrop Motley
17. "The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times." ~ John Lothrop Motley
18. "The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron." ~ John Lothrop Motley
19. "A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period." ~ John Lothrop Motley
20. "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries." ~ John Lothrop Motley
21. "The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude." ~ John Lothrop Motley
22. "A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind." ~ John Lothrop Motley
23. "Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience." ~ John Lothrop Motley
24. "For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career." ~ John Lothrop Motley
25. "You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice." ~ John Lothrop Motley

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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."
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