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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
[ Democracy ]
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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
[ Confidence ]
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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
[ Judgment ]
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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
[ Religion ]
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
[ Health ]
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
[ Praise ]
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The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
[ Ambition ]
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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
[ Silence ]
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