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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

— William R. Alger

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When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.

Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings,
But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.

Most men give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius, a vital appropriating exercise of mind, closely allied to that which first created it.

With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne,
And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.

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