"The remedy is worse than the disease."
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"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."
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"I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated."
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"It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other."
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"Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature."
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"Without friends the world is but a wilderness."
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"A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time."
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"The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them."
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"For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves."
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"I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles."
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"It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral."
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"As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds."
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"In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place."
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"Whatever you can, count."
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"A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal."
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"Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread."
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"There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little."
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"The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude."
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"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."
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"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."
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