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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
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This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
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The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.
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Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.
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A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
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There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
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Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.
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Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.
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