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Topic |
| Flies | We see spiders, flies or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. |
| Flies | It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise! |
| Flies | We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and embalming of the body of any king. |
| Folly | The folly of one man is the fortune of another. |
| Fortune | That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off." |
| Fortune | Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune, for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. |
| Fortune | Behind every great fortune there is a crime. |
| God | They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body, and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, his is a base and ignoble creature. |
| Goodness | Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. |
| Goodness | Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity, and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. |
| Government | States are great engines moving slowly. |
| Government | So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. |
| Grace | A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation. |
| History | Histories make men wise, poets, witty, the mathematics, subtle, natural philosophy, deep, moral, grave, logic and rhetoric, able to contend. |
| Humanity | Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us. |
| Imagination | Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, a sense of humor to console him for what he is. |
| Inspirational | Nothing is terrible except fear itself. |
| Inspirational | If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts, but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. |
| Inspirational | To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting. |
| Inspirational | A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. |
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