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The world 's a bubble, and the life of man Less then a span:...

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. Wisdom

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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

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To choose time is to save time.

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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. Science

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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A little philosophy inclines man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy brings men's minds about to religion.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

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All colors will agree in the dark.

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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. Nature

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. Nature

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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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Mysteries are due to secrecy.

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

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Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. Imagination

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