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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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  • Benjamin Franklin He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Francis Bacon He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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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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  • Thomas à Kempis He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Tryon Edwards He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Jeremy Taylor He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Blaise Pascal He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Shakespeare He that wants money, means and content is without three good friends.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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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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  • Oscar Wilde He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Shakespeare He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Horace He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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