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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

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Reading maketh a full man.

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Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

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[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

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

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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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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

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Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

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