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Conscience |
| A good conscience is a continual feast.
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Grace |
| A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
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Revenge |
| A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.
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Questions |
| A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Questions |
| A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
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Opportunities |
| A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Improvement |
| Acorns were good until bread was found.
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Age and Aging |
| Age will not be defied.
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Prejudice |
| All colors will agree in the dark.
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Anger |
| Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.
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Past |
| Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
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Innovation |
| As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
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Atheist and Atheism |
| Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
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Money |
| 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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Boldness |
| Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
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Insults |
| By indignities men come to dignities.
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Bachelors |
| Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
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Choice |
| Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Consistency |
| Consistency is the foundation of virtue.
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Doctors |
| Cure the disease and kill the patient.
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Age and Aging |
| Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.
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Discretion |
| Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
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Fame |
| Fame is like a river that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
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Love |
| For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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Wisdom |
| For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
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Heresy |
| For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
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Fate |
| Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
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Gardens and Gardening |
| God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.
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Providence |
| God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
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Intelligence and Intellectuals |
| 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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Creation |
| God's first creature was light.
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Fame |
| Good fame is like fire: when you have kindled it you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
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Advice |
| He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; He that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but He that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
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Families |
| He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
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Problems |
| He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alters things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
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Historians and History |
| Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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Hope |
| Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
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House and Home |
| Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
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Death and Dying |
| I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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Atheist and Atheism |
| I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
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Professions and Professionals |
| I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
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Students and Studying |
| I would live to study, and not study to live.
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Courtesy |
| If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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Certainty |
| If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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Money |
| If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
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Inventors and Inventions |
| If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
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Certainty |
| If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts. But if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
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Fate |
| Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
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Humor |
| Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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Charity |
| In charity there is no excess.
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