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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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The remedy is worse than the disease.

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

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It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

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Science is but an image of the truth.

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