In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
From Daniel Defoe
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
All men would be tyrants if they could.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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