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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.

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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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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

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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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Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

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He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

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We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

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Riches are for spending.

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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

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Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.

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Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

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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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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

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I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

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