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" As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. "
Francis Bacon
Which
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" Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. "
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" There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. "
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" A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. "
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" It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. "
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" Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. "
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" The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. "
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" The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. "
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" They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. "
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" Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. "
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" Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. "
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" Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. "
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" It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. "
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