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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. - attributed to, in "Life of Emerson", p. 165 [Politics] Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day! - [Prayer] He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest. - [Agriculture] Law is a bottomless pit. - title of a pamphlet (about 1700) [Law] O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way. - [Truth] The help, the guide, the balm of souls perplexed. - [Bible] The mathematics are friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of imagination, and purge the mind from error and prejudice. - [Mathematics] To bliss unknown my lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires. - Gnothi Seaton (l. 3) [Bliss]
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