“No man was ever wise by chance.”
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We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.