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Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We can not learn men from books.
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Seeming wise men may make shift to get opinion; but let no man choose them for employment; for certainly you were better take for business, a man somewhat absurd, than over-formal.
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All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.
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Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
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Everything comes if a man will only wait.
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
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Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.
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But that which is useful is the better.
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Beware of endeavouring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed: these are fearful odds.
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The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!
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