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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
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Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.
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Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.
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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
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A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.
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A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
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In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.
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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
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For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.
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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.
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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.
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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.
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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
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He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.
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Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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A good name is like a precious ointment; it filleth all around about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences; whence it is bad in council though good in execution. The right use of the bold, therefore, is, that they never command in chief, but serve as seconds under the direction of others. For in council it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them unless they be very great.
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The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.
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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'
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It is generally better to deal by speech than by letter.
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You shall have atheists strive to get disciples, as it fareth with other sects. And, which is most of all, you shall have of them, that will suffer for atheism, and not recant; whereas if they did truly think, that there were no such thing as God, why should they trouble themselves?
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Virtue is like precious odors — most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
January 22, 1561
Died:
April 9, 1626
(aged 65)
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