Thomas Fuller quote: "Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535 Sorrow for sin and sorrow for suffering are ofttimes so twisted and interwoven in the same person -- yea, in the same sigh and groan -- that sometimes it is impossible for the party himself so to separate and divide them in his own sense and feeling, as to know which proceeds from the one and which from the other. Only the all-seeing eye of an infinite God is able to discern and distinguish them."

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
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Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high.
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He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
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Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.
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Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales whi...
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Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.
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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has...
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It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals t...
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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in t...
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Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
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Today is yesterday's pupil.
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Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
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Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of...
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Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed o...
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We have all forgot more than we remember.
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A good garden may have some weeds.
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A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
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Poor men's reasons are not heard.
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It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
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All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
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With foxes we must play the fox.
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All doors open to courtesy.
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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
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Old foxes want no tutors.
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Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
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The more laws, the more offenders.
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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
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Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in m...
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When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife co...
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Soft words are hard arguments.
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He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
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A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
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He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .
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The more wit the less courage.
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Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
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He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.
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Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
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An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction be...
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One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
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Debt is the worst poverty.
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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last ...
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Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wr...
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Prospect is often better than possession.
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Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.
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Great and good are seldom the same man.
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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
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Nothing sharpens sight like envy.
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Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
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Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
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A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
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The devil himself is good when he is pleased.
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Good clothes open all doors.
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Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
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Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
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A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
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A man is not good or bad for one action.
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Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.
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He is rich that is satisfied.
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A man surprised is half beaten.
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A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
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Revenge in cold blood is the devil's own act and deed.
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In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
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Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
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Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.
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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious...
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A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
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The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
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Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
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Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
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If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.
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Bad excuses are worse than none.
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Willful waste brings woeful want.
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He teaches me to be good that does me good.
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What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.
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A generous confession disarms slander.
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The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
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Despair gives courage to a coward.
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It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
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Lavishness is not generosity.
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When the flatterer pipes, then the devil dances.
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Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full...
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If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
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Good is not good, when better is expected.
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Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in dis...
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A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
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Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
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He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
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He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
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Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
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Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
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A book that is shut is but a block.
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Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
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Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, a...
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He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman, laughs at the ratling of his fetters....
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Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
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A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
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Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
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He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
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A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.
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He that fears you present will hate you absent.
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A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise o...
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered on...
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The noblest revenge is to forgive.
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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
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Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
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He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his bod...
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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains. Thomas Fuller.
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Fools grow without watering.
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Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take h...
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It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library.
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A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their birth, and at the post--their dea...
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He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
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Much matter decocted into few words.
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Who dainties love shall beggars prove.
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Birth is the beginning of death
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Bad excuses are worse than none
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute kein...
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He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is a devil.
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Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.
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It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.
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The end of fishing is not angling, but catching.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure.
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Too good for great things and too great for good.
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Virtue is the only true nobility.
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No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
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Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, t...
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Better lose a jest than a friend
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Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
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Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee, But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun ...
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Thus God's children are immorall whiles their Father hath anything for them to do on earth.
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He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind.
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Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you ...
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He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.
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Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
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A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
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One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
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Better a tooth out than always aching.
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Care and diligence bring luck.
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Health is not valued till sickness comes.
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There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
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'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
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A good horse should be seldom spurred.
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A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
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We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has n...
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Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and...
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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
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Great hopes make great men.
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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
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Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
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If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
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Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the comm...
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Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
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There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
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Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.
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Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroid...
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The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
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Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
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If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
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He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain.
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Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.
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No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken.
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Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
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He was born within the sound of Bow-bell.
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Light (God's eldest daughter!)
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He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself the most.
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A good horse should be seldom spurred
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To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cord...
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He that fears your presence will hate you absence.
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Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distr...
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No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
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The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
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Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
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If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself. If you are too unfortunate, nobody will know y...
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If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
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If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
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He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea.
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Enquire not what boils in another's pot.
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Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hea...
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Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
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