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Wisdom Quotes · Page 35
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“The criterion of all right relations whatsoever is that we are helped by them.”
“We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.”
“Therefore do not seek to understand in order to believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.”
“The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.”
“Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects.”
“The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.”
“Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.”
“A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.”
“Human nature with all its infirmities and depravation is still capable of great things.”
“Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory.”
“The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals.”
“Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present generation, to preserve your Freedom!”
“Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.”
“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge.”
“The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.”
“Tyranny can scarcely be practised upon a virtuous and wise people.”
“It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.”