1. Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
2. Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
3. In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
4. Knowledge itself is power.
5. Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
6. Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
7. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
8. They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
9. Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will
make it the most agreeable.
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