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" He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. "
Francis Bacon
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" If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. "
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" Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. "
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" Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks. "
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" There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. "
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" Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. "
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" The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. "
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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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" Acorns were good until bread was found. "
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" The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. "
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" There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little. "
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" Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. "
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" Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. "
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" Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. "
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" 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. "
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" The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. "
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" Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. "
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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. "
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" Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. "
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" Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. "
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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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" It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. "
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" Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. "
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" 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. "
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" This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. "
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" Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. "
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" Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. "
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