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"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania."
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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
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He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."Of Death"
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Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.Essays: Of Building, 1623
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Knowledge is power. (Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est)Meditationes Sacræ. De Hæresibus. (1597)
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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.The Advancement of Learning, 1605
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