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  1. A quotation from Charles Mackay

    Keep, Galileo, to thy thought,
       And nerve thy soul to bear;
    They may gloat o’er the senseless words they wring
       From the pangs of thy despair:
    They may veil their eyes, but they cannot hide
       The sun’s meridian glow;
    The heel of a priest may tread thee down,
       And a tyrant work thee woe;
    But never a truth has been destroyed:
       They may curse it, and call it crime;
    Pervert and betray, or slander and slay
       Its teachers for a time.
    But the sunshine aye shall light the sky,
       As round and round we run;
    And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
       And justice shall be done.

    Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
    Poem (1847), “Eternal Justice,” st. 4

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  2. A quotation from Charles Mackay

    Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

    Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
    Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “The South-Sea Bubble” (1841)

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