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A quiet mind cureth all.
Robert Burton / Scholar
Peace
Mind
Quiet
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Be not solitary, be not idle
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Idle
Solitary
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Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
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Appendix
Idleness
Nobility
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A good conscience is a continual feast.
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Conscience
Feast
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What a glut of books! Who can read them?
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Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.
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Melancholy
Overcoming
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If you like not my writing, go read something else.
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Ifs
Writing
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[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
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Self Hatred
Self Loathing
Thinking
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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
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Exception
Admit
General
Rule
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A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
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Blow
Deeper
Strikes
Word
Sword
Than
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We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
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Mayors
Officers
Scholar
Years
Scholars
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Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
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Friendship
Friends
Bitter
Enemy
Old Friends
Toys
Old
Enemies
Small
Sudden
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One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
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Marriage
Hell
Married
Plague
Another
His
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A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
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Motivational
Dwarves
Eye
May
Shoulders
Standing
Farther
Giant
Himself
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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
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Love
Power
Candle
Love Is
Passion
Sun
Love Power Love Is
Set
Effect
Illustrate
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Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
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Angel
Attending
Every Man
Particular
Life Good Man
Hath
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Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
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Ancient
Bastards
Princes
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
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Aspect
Great Faith
Error
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No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
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Dream
Love
Single
Thread
Umbilical Cord
Bind
Cable
Cord
Draw
Fast
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Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.
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Mind
Miserable
Rich
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
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Summer
Life Love Nature
Wanting
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The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
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Confidence
Inspirational
Men
Ambition
Efficient
Succeed
Develop
Few
Themselves
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
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Ambitious
Squirrels
Men Great Never
Reach
Wheel
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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
Robert Burton / Scholar
Happiness
Bait
Increase
Mind
Moon
Proportion
Real
Real Happiness
Riches
Stores
Sun
Wealth
Worldly
General
Feed
Farthest
Fullest
Minds
Recede
Whose
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They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.
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Business
Ambition
Dog
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