One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESDiligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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That which costs little is less valued.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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Think before thou speakest.
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Love not what you are but only what you may become.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
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Thou hast seen nothing yet.
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Comparisons are odious.
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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