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  • Francis Bacon He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Richard Hooker He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.
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  • John Milton He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Francis Quarles He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • George Herbert He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • William Shakespeare He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Hobbes He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Jeremy Taylor He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Shakespeare He that sleeps feels not the toothache.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Francis Bacon He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Thomas Secker He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that's secure is not safe.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson He travels best that knows when to return. Middleton For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Kingsley Amis He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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