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"Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit."
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"To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us."
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"It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess."
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"They that govern most make the least noise."
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"Wise people say nothing in dangerous times."
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"Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people."
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"Philosophy is nothing but discretion."
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"A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat."
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"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them."
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"No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man."
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"They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black."
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"A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone."
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Churches
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"Old friends are best."
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"Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another."
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"Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels."
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"Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain."
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"Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet."
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"The world cannot be governed without juggling."
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"They that govern the most make the least noise."
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"Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us."
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"He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat."
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