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Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.



We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.



War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never



Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.



Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.



If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.



Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.



Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.



When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: "What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man



Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires.



He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.



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



The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later



The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.



No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power.







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