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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer; for there is no such flatterer as a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. - [Advice] There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise. - [Human Nature] There is no affectation in passion, for that putteth a man out of his precepts. - [Anger] There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding, and that which is lost by not trying. - [Success] There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginning and outsets of things. - [Opportunity] There is no way but to meditate and ruminate well upon the effects of anger,--how it troubles man's life; and the best time to do this is to look back upon anger when the fit is thoroughly over. - [Anger] There is nothing that makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and, therefore, men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions to smother. - [Suspicion] There is some good in public envy, whereas in private there is none; for public envy is as an ostracism that eclipseth men when they grow too great; and therefore it is a bridle also to great ones to keep within bounds. - [Envy] There is the supreme and indissoluble consanguinity between men, of which the heathen poet saith, we are all His generation. - [Man] There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. - [Wisdom] There never was found, in any age of the world, either religion or law that did so highly exalt the public good as the Bible. - [Bible] This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half. - [Communication] This world's a bubble. - ascribed to, by Thomas Farnaby [World] Those Spaniards in Mexico who were chased of the Indians tell us what to do with our goods in our extremity. They being to pass over a river in their flight, as many as cast away their gold swam over safe; but some, more covetous, keeping their gold, were either drowned with it, or overtaken and slain by the savages: you have received, now learn to give. - [Gifts] Those who want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts. - [Friends] Three means to fortify belief are experience, reason, and authority. Of these the more potent is authority; for belief upon reason or experience will stagger. - [Authority] Time is like a river, in which metals and solid substances are sunk, while chaff and straws swim upon the surface. - [Time] Time is the greatest of innovators. - [Time] To be free-minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting. - [Cheerfulness] To choose time is to save time. - [Time] To grief there is a limit; not so to fear. - [Fear] To speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroic virtue. - [Prosperity] To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none. - [Fear : Suffering] Too much magnifying of man or matter doth irritate contradiction, and procure envy and scorn. - [Praise] Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion. - [Truth] Displaying page 11 of 15 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [11] 12 13 14 15
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