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- Chewed
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
- Good
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
- Man
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
- Gardening
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
- Knowledge Is Power
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Knowledge is power.
- Man
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
- Better
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
- Command
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- More
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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
- Nothing
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- He
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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.
- Down
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
- Love
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
- Image
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
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Friends are thieves of time.
- Loss
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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.
- Fashion
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
- Character
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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.
- Good
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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
- Good
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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.
- Must
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
- His
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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
- Fool
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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
- Loving
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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
- Best
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The worst men often give the best advice.
- Great
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Experience
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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.
- Question
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
- Breakfast
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
- First
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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.
- New
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
- Art
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
- Excellent
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- Mind
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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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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
- Green
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
- He
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
- Man
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
- Experience
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
- Found
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
- Observe
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
- Man
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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
- Men
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
- Bad
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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.
- Flatterer
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
- Light
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
- Fire
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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.
- Must
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They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
- Fear
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
- Frame
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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.
- Men
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
- God
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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
- Blessing
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
- Job
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
- Justice
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The place of justice is a hallowed place.
- God
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God's first creature, which was light.
- People
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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.
- Die
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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.
- Die
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It is natural to die as to be born.
- More
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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.
- Great
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
- Men
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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
- Like
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
- Man
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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
- Look
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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
- God
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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.
- Justice
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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
- Human Power
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
- Integrity
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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.
- Happy
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
- Over
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
- Opportunity
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