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Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.
A good garden may have some weeds.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Better be alone than in bad company.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
A man is not good or bad for one action.
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Tis not every question that deserves an answer.
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
Abused patience turns to fury.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
A book that is shut is but a block.
The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
All doors open to courtesy.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
In fair weather prepare for foul.
With foxes we must play the fox.
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
A good horse should be seldom spurred.
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
All things are difficult before they were easy
Birth is the beginning of death
Bad excuses are worse than none
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.
Unschuld ist kein Schutz.
It is the property of fools to be always judging.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Today is yesterday's pupil.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Better a tooth out than always aching.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
Care and diligence bring luck.
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.
Old foxes want no tutors.
Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
Great hopes make great men.
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
A stumble may prevent a fall.
Bad excuses are worse than none.
Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
Eaten bread is forgotten.
Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
Good clothes open all doors.
Good is not good, where better is expected
Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
He that travels much knows much.
Health is just not valued until illness comes.

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