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"It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst."
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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."

"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."

"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."

"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."

"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"

"By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him."

"If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen."

"Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s."

"The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes."
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