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Light is the shadow of God.
Oblivion is not to be hired.
Lord deliver me from myself.
Rich with the spoils of nature.
Light is but the shadow of God.
(Death is) A leap into the dark.
Women do most delight in revenge.
Every Country hath its Machiavel.
Death is the cure for all diseases.
It is we that are blind, not fortune.
For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
The man without a navel still lives in me.
A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
The religion of one seems madness unto another.
Study prophecies when they are become histories.
Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.
Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
Think before you act; think twice before you speak.
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
There is another man within me that's angry with me.
Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.
The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.
I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
To be content with death may be better than to desire it.
The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.
Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.
To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.
A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.
Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.
The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one.
Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.
Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.
Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.