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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

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

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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

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God loveth the clean.

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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

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All colours will agree in the dark.

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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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A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

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It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

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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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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

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There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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