“It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.”
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
