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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin in doubts he shall end in certainties

Francis Bacon

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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation

Miguel de Cervantes

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It is easier to resist at the beginning than the end

Leonardo da Vinci

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A well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.

Petrarch

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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare

Yoshida Kenko

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Pride, Envy, and Avarice are the three sparks that have set these hearts on fire.

Dante Alighieri

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There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery

Dante Alighieri

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity

Meister Eckhart

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Hell is full of good intentions or desires.

St.Bernard

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Envy Slays itself by its own arrows

Anonymous

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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting

St. Jerome

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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

St. Jerome

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Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg

Chang Heng

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The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none

Carlyle, Heroes and Hero worship

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Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves

Lucian

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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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