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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
The worst men often give the best advice.
Great changes are easier than small ones.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
We only have our nervous system to paint.
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Wounds cannot be cured without searching.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Money is a great servant but a bad master.
In all superstition wise men follow fools.
Innovations, which are the births of time.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
To spend too much time in studies is sloth.
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
Money is like muck, not good unless spread.
There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.
Christianity is part of the law of England.
Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.
A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.
Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.
A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.
A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.
It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.
The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.
There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.
Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
War is a crime which involves all other crimes.
Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
More dangers have deceived men than forced them.
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.