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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

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Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

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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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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

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Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

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By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.

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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

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Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

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Truth is a naked and open daylight

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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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There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

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The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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Money is a great servant but a bad master.

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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

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