Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat upon the axletree of the chariot-wheel and said, what a dust do I raise.Francis Bacon
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
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One of the fathers saith ... that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.
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Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. In everything man has accomplished, we have only manipulated nature into doing what it is.
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