"Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged."
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"And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any."
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"Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him."
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"Man appoints, and God disappoints."
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"Miracle me no miracles."
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"Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do."
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"Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued"
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"If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not."
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"Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy."
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"Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more."
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"A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse."
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"One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house."
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"Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman."
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"Every production must resemble its author."
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"Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you."
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"He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals."
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"The absent feel and fear every ill."
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"The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it."
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"Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws."
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"For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future."
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