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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

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A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

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

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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

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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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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

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

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Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

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Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.

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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

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We only have our nervous system to paint.

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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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