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Natural abilities are like natural plants, they need pruning by study.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand, he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both, but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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 a flatterer.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, they need pruning by study.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - Francis Bacon,