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All Quotes Collection
"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."
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"Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter."
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"Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men."
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"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom."
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"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite."
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"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures."
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"Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time."
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"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
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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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"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green."
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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 men's minds about to religion."
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"But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on."
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"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."
Mind,
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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."
Life,
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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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"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."
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"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."
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"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
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"If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us."
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"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics."
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"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world."
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"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
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"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."
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"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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"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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"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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"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."
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"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."
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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 worst solitude is to have no real friendships."
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"The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate."
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"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."
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"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."
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"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."
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"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
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