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Topic |
| Ability | Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. |
| Adversity | Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. |
| Adversity | Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. |
| Adversity | Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. |
| Advice | 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. |
| Advice | 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. |
| Advice | Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. |
| Advice | 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. |
| Advice | Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. |
| Advice | Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. |
| Advice | 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. |
| Advice | Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts. |
| Advice | Knowledge and human power are synonymous. |
| Advice | Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. |
| Age | 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. |
| Ancestry | The wisdom of our ancestors. |
| Anger | Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. |
| Architecture | Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. |
| Authority | All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - Francis Bacon, |
| Bachelors | Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. |
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