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Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
Topic: Abstinence
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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
Topic: Censure
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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
Topic: Confidence
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
Topic: Death
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He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
Topic: Death
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To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.
Topic: Flattery
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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
Topic: Flattery
Source: None
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
Topic: Government
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
Topic: Government
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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
Topic: Government
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He that has more knowledge than judgement, is made for another man's use more than his own.
Topic: Knowledge
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Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
Topic: Name
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A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
Topic: Neutrality
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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
Topic: Oppression
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Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
Topic: Ostentation
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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
Topic: Passion
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
Topic: Past
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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Topic: Popularity
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It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
Topic: Reward
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
Topic: Reward
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Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
Topic: Temper
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Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst.
Topic: Time
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
Topic: Truth
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Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
Topic: Vow
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She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
Topic: Wife
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Less judgment than wit, is more sail than ballast.
Topic: Wit
Source: None
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