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He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

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It is natural to die as to be born.

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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

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

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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

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Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

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All will come out in the washing.

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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

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There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

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Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

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There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

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I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

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