Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
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The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
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Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
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To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
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He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
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A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
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Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.
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To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
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Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.
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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
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Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
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The public must and will be served.
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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
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To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
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Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
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