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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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Riches are for spending.

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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

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A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

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Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

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Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

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All bravery stands upon comparisons.

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Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

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All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

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The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

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Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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