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"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

"Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."

"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."

"Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral."

"Opportunity makes a thief."

"Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use."

"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears."

"Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time."

"Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul."

"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."

"God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires."

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

"The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands."

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."

"Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress."

"Science is but an image of the truth."

"What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."

"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."

"Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety."

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