The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
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The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
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Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when that faileth, he groweth out of use.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
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Time is the greatest innovator.
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Wounds cannot be cured without searching.
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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
