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1139 Statesman Quotes

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Truth Authority Time Daughter
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Fame Light Solid Swollen
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Prosperity Blessing New Old
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Man Gracious World Citizen
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Advice Example Admonition Build
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Pencil Affiction Solomon Job
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Men Superstition Observe Hit
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Fear Comfort Adversity Distastes
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Sort Part Experience Education
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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

Rebellions Belly Worst Power
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Man Philosophy Religion Depth
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Everything Garden Library You
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Gratitude Greatest Only Others
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Natural Infant Painful Die
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Always Before Born Child
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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cause Most Orator Vehement
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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Contend Enemy Folly Gates
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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Look Fortune Blind Invisible
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Revenge Justice Nature Law
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

God Greatest Smallest Wire
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Price Market Fortune Fall
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

God Exercise Intellect Side
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Life Age Miserable Happy
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Spirit Genius Nation Proverbs
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Joy Grieves Fear Secret
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Subtlety Nature Sense Greater
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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Certain Man Revenge Green
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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Body Cultivation Food Mind
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More law, less justice.
Justice Law Less More
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Consider Honorable Intended Said
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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Highest Law People Safety
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Ashamed Say Should Think
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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Also Courage Faith Full
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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Liberty Peace Tranquillity
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Follow Glory Shadow Virtue
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The sinews of war are infinite money.

Infinite Money Sinews War
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Adverse Blows Brave Fortune
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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Children Gifts His Human
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Consists Decency Doing Giving
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Aspiring Even Highest Honorable
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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

Creation Criticize Fault Finding
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Baldness Foolish Grief Hair
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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Harder Him Inferiority Man
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True nobility is exempt from fear.

Exempt Fear Nobility True
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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Again Beings Come Creator
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Dead Life Living Memory
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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Bring Change Day Does
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Every Friends Goats He
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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
Mine Thine
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Always Am Fraud Gentleman
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