Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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Men suppose their reason has command over their words still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason.Francis Bacon
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Intermingle . . . jest with earnest.
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If any human being earnestly desires to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative know.
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