Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the heroic virtue.
Knowledge is power.
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use.
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness is the proportion.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Time is the author of authors.
There is no man that imparted his joys to his friends, but he joys the more; and no man that imparted his grieves to his friend, but he grieves the less.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they see nothing but sea.
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extended. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a thinking cymbal, where there is no love.
I would live to study, not study to live.
Riches are for spending.
The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
As the births of living creatures at first are ill - shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator.
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
It is left only to God and to the angels to be lookers on.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one... the more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
If a man looks sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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