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Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
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A Husband without Faults is a dangerous Observer.
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A Princely Mind will undo a private Family.
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Love is a Passion that hath Friends in the Garrison.
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A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.
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A Prince who will not undergo the Difficulty of Understanding, must undergo the Danger of Trusting.
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Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.
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If the Laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the Lawyers in the first Place.
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Men are not hang'd for stealing Horses, but that Horses may not be stolen.
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Malice is of a low Stature, but it hath very long Arms.
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Of Malice and Envy.
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The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
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Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one.
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It is Ill-manners to silence a Fool, and Cruelty to let him go on.
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Malice, like Lust, when it is at the Height, doth not know Shame.
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The vanity of teaching often tempteth a Man to forget he is a Blockhead.
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The first mistake belonging to business is the going into it.
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Money hath too great a Preference given to it by States, as well as by particular Men.
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A Little Learning misleadeth, and a great deal often stupifieth the Understanding.
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Folly is often more cruel in the consequence, than malice can be in the intent.
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The condition of mankind is to be weary of what we do know, and afraid of what we do not.
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Modesty is oftner mistaken than any other Virtue.
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A Man is to go about his own Business as if he had not a Friend in the World to help him in it.
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A Man may so overdo it in looking too far before him, that he may stumble the more for it.
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He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
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A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.
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MANY Men swallow the being cheated, but no Man could ever endure to chew it.
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Men take more pains to hide than to mend themselves.
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THE best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
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The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
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Some Mens Memory is like a Box, where a Man should mingle his Jewels with his old Shoes.
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A Man may dwell so long upon a Thought, that it may take him Prisoner.
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Half the Truth is often as arrant a Lye, as can be made.
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George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax |
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A Man who is Master of Patience, is Master of everything else.
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Nothing hath an uglier Look to us than Reason, when it is not of our side.
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MISPENDING a Man's time is a kind of self-homicide, it is making Life to be of no use.
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George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax |
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Nothing would more contribute to make a Man wise, than to have always an Enemy in his view.
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