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" As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. "

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" Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. "

" Knowledge and human power are synonymous. "

" Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice. "

" Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. "

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" Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. "

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" Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business. "

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" A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. "

" There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. "

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" A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. "

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" Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. "

" The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. "

" The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. "

" They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. "

" We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. "

" Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. "

" Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. "

" Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. "

" Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. "

" It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. "

" The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. "

" If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. "