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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
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All colours will agree in the dark.
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom
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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion.
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
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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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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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God's first creature, which was light.
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
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For also knowledge itself is power.
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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
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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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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
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