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Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.)
Books are ships which pass through the vast sea of time.
Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return ex reason.
Houses are built to live in, more than to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
Good thoughts, though God accept them, yet toward men are little better than good dreams except they be put in action.
Nature is not governed, except by obeying her.
The continual habit of dissimilation is but a weak and sluggish cunning, and greatly politic.
Constancy is the foundation of virtues.
Books are the shrine where the saint is. or is believed to be.
What action is to the orator, that boldness is to the public man first, second and third.

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