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

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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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If you can talk about it, why paint it?

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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To know truly is to know by causes.

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Always let losers have their words.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

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I would live to study, not study to live.

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In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

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

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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

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