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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

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A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

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For knowledge, too, is itself power.

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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

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States are great engines moving slowly.

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For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

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A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

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Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

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Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

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There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

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There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

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When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

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When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

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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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Cure the disease and kill the patient.

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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

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