"There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self."

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"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."

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"Age will not be defied."

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"Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied."

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"Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."

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"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

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"People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."

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"The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought."

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"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall."

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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea."

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"Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order."

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"Cure the disease and kill the patient."

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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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"In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

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"Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it."

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"Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight."

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"None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy."

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"Riches are for spending."

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"Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts."

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"Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid."

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"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."

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"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief."

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"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."

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"Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not."

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"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other."

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