“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”
Wisdom“Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.”
Best“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”
Wisdom“Wise men make more opportunities than they find.”
Men“Acorns were good until bread was found.”
Good“Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.”
Religion“He that hath knowledge spareth his words.”
Knowledge“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
Wisdom“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.”
Anger“Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.”
Experience“What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.”
Truth“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.”
Change“Friends are thieves of time.”
Time“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.”
Life“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.”
Fear“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.”
Knowledge“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
Hope“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.”
Change“It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”
Power“By indignities men come to dignities.”
Men“God's first creature, which was light.”
God“Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.”
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