Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

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The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.