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- He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
- The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
- The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
- Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
- Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.