Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
タグ: problems

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A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock, and assumes 10 different positions in a day.
タグ: work
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live
タグ: suicide, live, life, death
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
タグ: real, always, will, writing
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
タグ: know, live, city, you
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
タグ: man, wise, good, best
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