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When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

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No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

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Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

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Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

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I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.

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You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

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Nationality: English

Type: Professions

Born: Unknown

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