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• My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest…
• Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
• We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine…
• Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
• Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
• There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is…
• Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken…
• In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden…
• It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to…
• He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
• Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
• Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

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