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All Quotes Collection
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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"Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory."
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"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."
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"People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors."
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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 pleasant that is not spiced with variety."
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"Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice."
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"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."
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"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."
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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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"Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread."
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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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"Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use."
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"Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."
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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
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"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."
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"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise."
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"The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors."
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"Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business."
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"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."
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"Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul."
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"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."
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"What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."
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"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
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"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall."
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"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."
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"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."
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"Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience."
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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
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"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."
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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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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
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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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"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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"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."
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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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"For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages."
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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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"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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