The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.Charles Caleb Colton
Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.
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Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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