Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
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Some men, like a tiled house, are long before they take fire, but once on flame there is no coming near to quench them.
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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
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Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise.
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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
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An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
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I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
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