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The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
Robert South
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Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
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Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
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God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
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Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
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Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
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In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
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Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
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An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
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The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
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It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
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