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“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.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.”
“The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame”
“Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.”
“There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.”
“If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition”
“The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.”
“Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.”
“Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes”
“War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.”
