Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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Just as it is always said of slander that something always sticks when people boldly slander, so it might be said of self-praise (if it is not entirely shameful and ridiculous) that if we praise ourselves fearlessly, something will always stick.Francis Bacon
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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The four pillars of government . . . (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure).
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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
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It is not what men eat but what they digest that makes them strong not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned not what we preach but what we practice that makes us Christians.
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