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A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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In charity there is no excess.

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I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

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The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

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Cure the disease and kill the patient.

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It is natural to die as to be born.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

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God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

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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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Knowledge is power.

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

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

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They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

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