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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

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Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

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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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Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

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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.

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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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I believe in deeply ordered chaos

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A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

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By indignities men come to dignities.

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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

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