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| He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune. | | Uncategorized | |
| Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. | | Uncategorized | |
| Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. | | Uncategorized | |
| If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. | | Uncategorized | |
| If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill. | | Uncategorized | |
| If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. | | Uncategorized | |
| If we begin with certainties, we will end in doubt. But if we begin with doubts and bear them patiently, we may end in certainty. | | Uncategorized | |
| Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. | | Uncategorized | |
| In civil business; what first? Boldness; what second, and third? Boldness. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness. | | Uncategorized | |
| In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. | | Uncategorized | |
| In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. | | Uncategorized | |
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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. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment. | | Uncategorized | |
| It was prettily devised of Aesop, "The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! " | | Uncategorized | |
| Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. | | Uncategorized | |
| Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones. | | Uncategorized | |
| Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him . . . when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.' | | Uncategorized | |
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