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“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.”

Humans Whole Hands Politics Power Records Rights Written Mankind Human Nature Sacred Divinity Volume Sunbeams

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies.”

Love Love Is Mankind Bird Rose Bounds Creator Volume Violet Juice Printed Saviour Lilies Peaches Humming Beaks

Book:Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition

Source: Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition

“My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.”

World Years May Children Evil Influence Mankind Blessing Eternal Wide Reaching Volume Neglected Blast Plunge Blight Perdition

Author:George Muller

“All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

Knows Men Book Dies Language Mankind Involved Rings Thee Islands One Man Bells Preacher Chapters Volume Torn Diminish Sermons Tolls Congregation Whom The Bell Tolls

Author:John Donne