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



It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.



Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is



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



The best preservative to keep the mind on health is the faithful admonition of a friend.



Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.



God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.



Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life



He that hath knowledge spareth his words.



They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he is not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.



Poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.








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