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" Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. "

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" He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. "

" Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. "

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

" Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. "

" It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt. "

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" Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. "

" Knowledge is power. "

Knowledge Is Power

" When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. "

" I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind. "

" Wise men make more opportunities than they find. "

" For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. "

" The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. "

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

" There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. "

" The place of justice is a hallowed place. "

" We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. "

" Opportunity makes a thief. "

" Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. "

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

" He that hath knowledge spareth his words. "

" Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. "

" The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. "

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

" A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. "

" Acorns were good until bread was found. "