“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 first mistake belonging to business is the going into it.”
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The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
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Princes (their Rewards of Servants).
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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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“Weak men are apt to be cruel.”
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