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So little in his purse, so much upon his back.

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Lo, all princes and monarchs dance with us in the same ring.

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Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

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The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage.

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He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

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Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.

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A legal thief, a bloodless murderer,
A fiend incarnate, a false usurer.

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Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

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I first adventure, follow me who list
And be the second English satirist.

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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

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For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.

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We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

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Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.

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The proud man hath no God; the envious
man hath no neighbor; the angry man
hath not himself.

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Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.

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What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

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If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.

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And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

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How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

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Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not.

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Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.

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Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

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Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.

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He is wealthy enough, that wanteth not: he is great enough, that is his own master: he is happy enough, that lives to die well.

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Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.

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What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.

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The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

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The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions.

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There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.

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He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him.

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