Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
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It is a miserable state of mind, to have few things to desire and many things to fear And yet that commonly is the case of kings.
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Seek not proud wealth but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and love contentedly
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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.
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Nothing is to be feared but fear.
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