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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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Time is the author of authors.

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Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

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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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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

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

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