The virtue of prosperity is temperance the value of adversity is fortitude.
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Poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.Francis Bacon
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
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What then remains, but that we still should cry, Not to be born, or being born, to die.
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Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.
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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
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And Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
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