"God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires."

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"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."

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"Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue."

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"I hold every man a debtor to his profession."

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"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable."

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"It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self."

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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

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"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

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"In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues."

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"There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self."

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