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Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

The ancient republics absorbed the individual in the state--prescribed his religion and controlled his activity.

Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion.

Hence the necessity that he should have been well trained in habits, who is to study, with any tolerable chance of profit, the principles of nobleness and justice and moral philosophy generally.

The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.

Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.