They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge.
No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.
Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.
All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it.
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
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