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In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught the calculations of reason, and to render those who should have remembered their manhood, the slaves of the basest passions.
"Judge not too rashly from hasty and deceptive appearances,"
"Man's voice is given to him, like his other talents, to be used, and not to be abused.
"Where are the blossoms of those summers!—fallen, one by one; so all of my family departed, each in his turn, to the land of spirits. I am on the hilltop and must go down into the valley; and when Uncas follows in my footsteps there will no longer be any of the blood of the Sagamores, for my boy is the last of the Mohicans."
"Would you set a cloud to chase the wind?"
"who that looks at this creature of nature, remembers the shade of his skin?"
