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Men Are To Be Guided Only By Their Self-interests. Good Government Is A Good Balancing Of These; And, Except A Keen Eye And Appetite For Self-interest, Requires No Virtue In Any Quarter. To Both Parties It Is Emphatically A Machine: To The Discontented, A Taxing-machine; To The Contented, A Machine For Securing Property. Its Duties And Its Faults Are Not Those Of A Father, But Of An Active Parish-constable.

Permanence, Perseverance And Persistence In Spite Of All Obstacle S, Discouragement S, And Impossibilities: It Is This, That In All Things Distinguishes The Strong Soul From The Weak.

One Life; A Little Gleam Of Time Between Two Eternities; No Second Chance To Us For Evermore!

Feel It In Thy Heart And Then Say Whether It Is Of God!

Man Makes Circumstances, And Spiritually As Well As Economically, Is The Artificer Of His Own Fortune.