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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.