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" The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. "

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" The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. "

" Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. "

" Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. "

" The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. "

" But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on. "

" No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise. "

" Acorns were good until bread was found. "

" 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. "

" If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. "

" There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. "

" They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. "

" Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon. "

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

" 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. "

" Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business. "

" Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. "

" What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. "

" Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. "

" If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. "

" 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. "

" Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. "