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" A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. "

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" Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. "

" Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use. "

" Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. "

" I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. "

" Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. "

" 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. "

" The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. "

" Opportunity makes a thief. "

" Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. "

" 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. "

" The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief. "

" Knowledge and human power are synonymous. "

" Knowledge is power. "

Knowledge Is Power

" Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. "

" Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. "

" Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. "

" Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. "

" Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. "

" Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. "

" Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. "

" He that hath knowledge spareth his words. "

" The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. "

" Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. "

" Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. "

" A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. "

" It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self. "

" We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. "

" If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us. "