George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, was an English statesman, writer, and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660, and in the House of Lords after he was raised to the peerage in 1668. Wikipedia
“THE best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.”
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Variant: THE best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
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“A Husband without Faults is a dangerous Observer.”
The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
“MANY Men swallow the being cheated, but no Man could ever endure to chew it.”
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“It is Ill-manners to silence a Fool, and Cruelty to let him go on.”
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“Money hath too great a Preference given to it by States, as well as by particular Men.”
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“Some Mens Memory is like a Box, where a Man should mingle his Jewels with his old Shoes.”
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The Anatomy of an Equivalent : from The Complete Works of George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax (1912), ed. Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Clarendon Press p. 123.
The Anatomy of an Equivalent (1688)
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Princes (their Rewards of Servants).
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“Weak men are apt to be cruel.”
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“The first mistake belonging to business is the going into it.”
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“A Man is to go about his own Business as if he had not a Friend in the World to help him in it.”
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“Malice is of a low Stature, but it hath very long Arms.”
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Of Fundamentals.
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“Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.”
Princes (their Rewards of Servants).
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The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
“Love is a Passion that hath Friends in the Garrison.”
The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
Religion.
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“Malice, like Lust, when it is at the Height, doth not know Shame.”
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“If the Laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the Lawyers in the first Place.”
Of Laws.
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“The condition of mankind is to be weary of what we do know, and afraid of what we do not.”
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“He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.”
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“A Man who is Master of Patience, is Master of everything else.”
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“Half the Truth is often as arrant a Lye, as can be made.”
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“A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.”
On King Charles II’s memory.
A Character of King Charles II (1750)
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“Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one.”
Of Anger.
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“Folly is often more cruel in the consequence, than malice can be in the intent.”
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“Men are not hang'd for stealing Horses, but that Horses may not be stolen.”
Of Punishment.
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The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
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“Men take more pains to hide than to mend themselves.”
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“A Man may so overdo it in looking too far before him, that he may stumble the more for it.”
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“Nothing hath an uglier Look to us than Reason, when it is not of our side.”
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The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
Of Laws.
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Of Princes.
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“The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.”
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“A Little Learning misleadeth, and a great deal often stupifieth the Understanding.”
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“Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.”
On Dr. Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), Bishop of Salisbury : as cited in The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors: 1639-1729 , ed. Charles Wells Moulton, H. Malkan (1910) p. 591.
Of Prerogative, Power and Liberty.
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“A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.”
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Of Parties.
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“The vanity of teaching often tempteth a Man to forget he is a Blockhead.”
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“A Princely Mind will undo a private Family.”
The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
“A Man may dwell so long upon a Thought, that it may take him Prisoner.”
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“Modesty is oftner mistaken than any other Virtue.”
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“Nothing would more contribute to make a Man wise, than to have always an Enemy in his view.”
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“MISPENDING a Man's time is a kind of self-homicide, it is making Life to be of no use.”
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