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There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

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Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

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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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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

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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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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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Come home to men's business and bosoms.

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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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