Quote by Calvin Coolidge
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. – Calvin Coolidge

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. – Calvin Coolidge

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After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. – Calvin Coolidge

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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. – Calvin Coolidge

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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. – Jules Verne

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Nature is commanded by obeying her. – Francis Bacon

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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. – Francis Bacon

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My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms — will it return to my body when they scatter? – Kotomichi

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Science does not permit exceptions. – Claude Bernard

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