"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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"It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear."

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"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."

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"Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible."

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"Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less."

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"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

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"God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure."

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"Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study."

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"A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation."

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"For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages."

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"It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment."

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"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."

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"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."

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"The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding."

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"Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper."

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"Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us."

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