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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.



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.



Gardening is the purest of human pleasures



God almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures



We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.



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



Acorns were good till bread was found.



It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.



A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.



[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.



Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.



Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.



If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.



They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.



The result is often disappointing, but the process is highly exciting.








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