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• Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater…
• He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
• Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
• It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive…
• A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined…
• Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
• Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
• Dive on them and squash them if you must.
• God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
• Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful…
• Love is friendship set on fire.
• Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

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