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"A mans nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other."
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Ornamenta Rationalia
"A mans nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other."
"They live ill, who think to live for ever."
"He that studieth revenge, keepeth his own wounds green."
"The fortune which nobody sees makes a man happy and unenvied."
"The flood of grief decreaseth, when it can swell no higher."
"If [things] be not tossed upon the arguments of counsel, they will be tossed upon- the waves of fortune."
"The coward calls himself a cautious man; and the miser says, he is frugal."
"A mixture of falsehood is like alloy in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it debaseth it."
"Riches are the baggage of virtue; they cannot be spared nor left behind, but they hinder the march."
"Riches have sold more men than ever they have bought."
"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity the blessing of the New."
"Extreme self-lovers will set a mans house on fire, though it were but to roast their eggs."