"Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage."

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"Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he."

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"Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment."

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"Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it."

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"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them."

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"It is better to learn late than never."

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"Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one."

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"Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocency."

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"He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak."

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"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."

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"It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery."

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"You need not hang up the ivy-branch over the wine that will sell."

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"Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little."

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"We give to necessity the praise of virtue."

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"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish."

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"Vain hopes are often like the dreams of those who wake."

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"A liar should have a good memory."

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"Right as a trivet."

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"They spare the rod, and spoyle the child."

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"All the beauty of the world, 't is but skin deep."

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"He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others."

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"In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."

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"The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs."

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"A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world."

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"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it."

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"For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?"

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"Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone."

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"Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,-- "'T is man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die.""

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"Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill?"

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"Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds."

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"Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue."

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"And striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form."

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"The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew."

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"I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar."

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"If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him."

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"All mankind love a lover."

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"There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all; And where it cometh, all things are; And it cometh everywhere."

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"Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better."

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"Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?"

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"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."

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"A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays."

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"Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone."

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"Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit."

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"Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire."

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"Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought."

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"A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence."

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"For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?"

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"The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do."

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"Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind."

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"The silent organ loudest chants The master's requiem."

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