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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, ver

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. – Abigail Adams

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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. – Abigail Adams

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Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. – Abigail Adams

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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines. – Paracelsus

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. – Voltaire

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The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. – Thomas Malthus

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Power and speed be hands and feet. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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