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- History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in…
- The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
- Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.
- An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait…
- And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us…
- Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.
- As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.
- Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both…
- Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
- Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present,…
- Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.
- A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for…
- Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could…
- Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is…
- Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
- Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
- If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
- Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
- I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting…
- Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects.…
- Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you…
- I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe in that He ought to be whipped from pilar to post and back again for His…
- Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.
- If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present…
- Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves…
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