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"Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm."
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"Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm."
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"Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made."
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"We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us."
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"Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious."
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"These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity."
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"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
Marriage
"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."
Fame
"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."
Politics
"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other."
Life
"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."
Happiness
"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck."
Danger
"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."
Nothing
"Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost."
Religion
"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."
Wealth
"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
Wisdom
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