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1. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.
2. The great atheists indeed are hypocrites, who are ever handling holy things but without feeling; so as they must needs be cauterized in the end.
3. The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
4. "Defer not charities till death. He hath does so, is rather liberal of another man's than of his own."
5. "The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists."
6. "A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint."
7. "To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
8. "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
9. "Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise."
10. "Money is like muck, not good except it be spread."
11. "No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth."
12. "A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green."
13. "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark."
14. "Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
15. "It [friendship] redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in halves."
16. "They are all ill discoverers that think that there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."
17. "Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man."
18. "I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind."
19. "Virtue is like a rich stone---best plain set."
