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“Quando aliquid prohibetur, prohibetur et omne per quod devenitur ad illud.”
— Translation: When anything is forbidden, everything which leads to the same result is also forbidden.
“From little spark may burst a mighty flame.”
— Dante Alighieri, Paradise, Canto I, line 34. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 670
“They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.”
— Hosea, VIII. 7. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 670
“All this is not the result of accident. It has a philosophical cause. Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity.”
— Abraham Lincoln Fragment on the Constitution and the Union (c. January, 1861); quoted in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 4 (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953), p. 168-169
“Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.”
— William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act I, scene 4, line 369
“The evening shows the day, and death crowns life.”
— John Webster, A Monumental Column, last line. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 670

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