If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.
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New nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time.Francis Bacon
The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.
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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards Men.
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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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A man ought warily to begin charges which once begun will continue.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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