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"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."

"A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it."

"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread."

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

"The remedy is worse than the disease."

"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half."

"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."

"It was prettily devised of Aesop, "The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! ""

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

"I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind."

"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."

"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New."

"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."

"Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution."

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