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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
The worst men often give the best advice.
I would live to study, not study to live.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
We only have our nervous system to paint.
Great changes are easier than small ones.
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Wounds cannot be cured without searching.
In all superstition wise men follow fools.
Innovations, which are the births of time.
Money is a great servant but a bad master.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
To spend too much time in studies is sloth.
Money is like muck, not good unless spread.
There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.
You can't be more horrific than life itself.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.
Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.
A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.
Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.
It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.
A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.
Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.
Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
More dangers have deceived men than forced them.
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.