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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

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The worst men often give the best advice.

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is gene...more

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is gene...more

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to m...more