"Boldness is a child of ignorance"
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"The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel."
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"Cure the disease and kill the patient."
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"He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?."
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"Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'"
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"If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner."
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"States are great engines moving slowly."
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"Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind."
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"Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us."
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"Mysteries are due to secrecy."
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"It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives"
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"In charity there is no excess."
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"Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust."
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"Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen."
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"A young man not yet, an elder man not at all."
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"I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being."
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"To know truly is to know by causes."
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"To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting."
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"A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers."
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"No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being."
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