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Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Good clothes open all doors.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Health is just not valued until illness comes.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Care and diligence bring luck.
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
Abused patience turns to fury.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.
Old foxes want no tutors.
Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
A book that is shut is but a block.
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come
as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Better hazard once than always be in fear.
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
He that travels much knows much.
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.
Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
The worse the passage the more welcome the port.
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
Danger past, God is forgotten.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
We have all forgot more than we remember.
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Always tell the Truth : where it is not loved, it is respected and feared.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
Good is not good, where better is expected
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
With foxes we must play the fox.
He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.
A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
A man is not good or bad for one action.
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Better a tooth out than always aching.
Eaten bread is forgotten.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Better be alone than in bad company.
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
The Way to think we have enough, is not to desire to have too much.
Great hopes make great men.
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
