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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

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Truth is a naked and open daylight

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

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Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.

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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

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Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

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The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

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I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

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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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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. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

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If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

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It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

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