The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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