Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

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Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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