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He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

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Mountains will be in labour, and the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

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He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

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O, if thou car'st not whom I love alas, thou lov'st not me.

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

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Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign.

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

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Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.

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For, thus friends absent speak.

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But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

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Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

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He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

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Running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

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