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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

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Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

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One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

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One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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In all superstition wise men follow fools.

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The place of justice is a hallowed place.

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He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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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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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

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