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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Hunger is the best pickle.
Fatigue is the best pillow.