Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
From Francis Bacon
Friends are thieves of time.
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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