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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

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Error is always more busy than truth.

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Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

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Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

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Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: April 30th, 1771

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