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“Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.”
“It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.”
“All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.”
“There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.”
“Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.”
“A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!”
“He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.”
“He that hopes no good fears no ill.”
“A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.”
“A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.”
“The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.”
“Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.”
“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.”
“One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.”
“If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.”
“He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.”
“Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.”
“Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.”
“There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.”
“Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.”