"Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun."

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"Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen."

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"Christ himself was poor. . . . And as he was himself, so he informed his apostles and disciples, they were all poor, prophets poor, apostles poor."

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"Who cannot give good counsel? 'T is cheap, it costs them nothing."

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"The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill."

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"Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword."

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"Like a hog, or dog in the manger, he doth only keep it because it shall do nobody else good, hurting himself and others."

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"A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich."

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"When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done."

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"He is only fantastical that is not in fashion."

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"Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven."

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"See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all."

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"They have cheveril consciences that will stretch."

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"Felix Plater notes of some young physicians, that study to cure diseases, catch them themselves, will be sick, and appropriate all symptoms they find related of others to their own persons."

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"Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop."

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"For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows."

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"The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience."

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"Birds of a feather will gather together."

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"Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all."

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"Though it rain daggers with their points downward."

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"And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends on his Creator."

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"And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard."

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"Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,--the one to be held by, the other not."

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"[Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels.""

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"Diogenes struck the father when the son swore."

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"All places are distant from heaven alike."

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"[Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring."

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"They do not live but linger."

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"Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity."

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"There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism."

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"Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to them, the welfare of the States in which they live, the safety of the whole Republic, the dignity of the elective franchise,--all alike demand that the still remaining bonds of ignorance shall be unloosed and broken, and the minds as well as the bodies of the emancipated go free."

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"The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime."

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"Our Country,--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less,--still our Country, to be cherished in all our hearts, to be defended by all our hands."

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"A star for every State, and a State for every star."

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"One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear and bid adieu; Though we sever, my fond heart Till we meet shall pant for you."

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"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph."

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"Call things by their right names. . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."

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"His [Burke's] imperial fancy has laid all Nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation and every walk of art."

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"He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move."

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"Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing, Hope, and comfort from above; Let us each, thy peace possessing, Triumph in redeeming love."

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"Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting-stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee."

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"But ne'er the rose without the thorn."

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"Fair daffadills, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early rising sun Has not attained his noon."

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"Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing 's so hard but search will find it out."

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"Out-did the meat, out-did the frolick wine."

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"You say to me-wards your affection 's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long."

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"Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave."

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"A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness."

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"Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again."

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"Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia."

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