Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
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Knowledge itself is power. Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.Francis Bacon
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake...
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My essays . . . come home, to men's business, and bosoms.
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
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