If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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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 is a man's self.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
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But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
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Art is man added to Nature Descriptio Globi Intellectus (1612).
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For man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection: and they be three wisdoms of divers natures, which do often sever: wisdom of the behaviour, wisdom of business, and wisdom of state.
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Seeming wise men may make shift to get opinion; but let no man choose them for employment; for certainly you were better take for business, a man somewhat absurd, than over-formal.
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