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"Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms."
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"Truth, by all means is the ultimate reward for all the sufferings of the human mind that often compel even the strongest of characters to get down on his or her knees."

"When you put the hard work in... reward will come out."

"The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him."

"The hen that lays the most eggs deserves the most food."

"You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it."

"If you are faithful and diligent in your work, God will place you before kings."

"No good will remain unrewarded, if not by men, then by God."
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"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."

"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."

"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."

"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."

"He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth."

"If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city."

"Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair."

"Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age."

"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."

"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."
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