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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
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All will come out in the washing.
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A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.
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Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.
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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.
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Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.
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Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.
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Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.
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Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand either give motion or guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions.
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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
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The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.
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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
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It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
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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.
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I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.
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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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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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Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
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As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
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It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion, as is unworthy of him. For the one is unbelief, the other is contumely; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity.
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