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- I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into…
- Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the…
- Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies.
- There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their…
- Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant…
- Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved,…
- "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality.…
- A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the…
- Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.
- If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have not in their…
- An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait…
- Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.
- All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
- There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
- If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
- The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
- Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects.…
- All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books.
- For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.
- Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
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