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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
The more wit the less courage.
He that travels much knows much.
Old foxes want no tutors.
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than... →
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.