"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price."
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"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."
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"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle."
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"He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence."
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"Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting."
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"A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil."
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"I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity."
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"Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask."
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"Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist."
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"Games lubricate the body and the mind."
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"Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither."
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"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
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"It is a strange anomaly that men could be careful to insure their houses, their ships, their merchandise, and yet neglect to insure their lives - surely the most important of all to their families, and more subject to loss."
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"Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75."
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"Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted."
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"Mine is better than ours."
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"What good shall I do this day?"
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"No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry."
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"A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common."
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"Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle."
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