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

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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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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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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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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

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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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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

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Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

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Cure the disease and kill the patient.

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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.

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Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

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