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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

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Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

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

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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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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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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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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

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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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Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

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The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

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Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

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