Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Genius, in one respect, is like gold numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
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Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.
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In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
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