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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.

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Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

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Friends are thieves of time.

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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

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Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

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One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

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Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

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The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

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States, as great engines, move slowly.

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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

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He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

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