Quotes 201 till 220 of 317.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
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Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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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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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
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Some books are to be tasted, some to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
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Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
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Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
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