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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
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Opportunity makes a thief.
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
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Nothing is to be feared but fear.
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Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
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Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants they need pruning by study.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
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Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty.
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Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
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Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
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Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
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It is natural to die as to be born.
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It is impossible to love and to be wise
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
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It is as natural to die as to be born and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other.
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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior.
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