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" Opportunity makes a thief. "

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" The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. "

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

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

" A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it. "

" It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. "

" The remedy is worse than the disease. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. "

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" Acorns were good until bread was found. "