"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."
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"Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not."
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"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."
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"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New."
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"It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self."
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"Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it."
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"The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions."
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"Truth is a naked and open daylight"
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"Gardening is the purest of human pleasures."
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"Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business."
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"Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground."
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"He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune."
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"I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto."
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"Science is but an image of the truth."
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"We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."
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"Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light."
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"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion."
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"Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings."
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"Books will speak plain when counselors blanch."
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"Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason"
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