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They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

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All bravery stands upon comparisons.

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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.

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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

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Nothing is to be feared but fear.

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

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In charity there is no excess.

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They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

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To know truly is to know by causes.

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

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You can't be more horrific than life itself.

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In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

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