conscience

contention

cooking

curiosity

desire

despair

employment

England

gambling

idleness

insult

lust

marriage

melancholy

moon

Paris

physician

preparedness

sickness

sympathy

temperance

tobacco

wealth

is a great ledger book in which all our offerees are written and registered, and which time reveals to the sense and feeling of the offender.

Conscience is a great ledger book in which all our offerees are written and registered, and which time reveals to the sense and feeling of the offender.

is a hydra’s bead; the more they strive the more they may : and as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy face in it, brake it in pieces : but for that one he saw many more as bad in a moment.

Contention is a hydra’s bead; the more they strive the more they may : and as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy face in it, brake it in pieces : but for that one he saw many more as bad in a moment

is so essential to human happiness that indolence is rightly considered as the mother of misery.

Employment, which Galen calls “nature’s physician,” is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

is as ruinous to the temper and disposition of the party addicted to them, as they are to his fame and fortune.

 advances men’s conceits more than any humor whatever.

Melancholy advanceth men’s conceits more than any humor whatever.

philosophy

is the international capital because in its planning the universal mind recognizes that complete articulation which satisfies the craving for good order and symmetry in every part.

Paris is the inte rnational capital because in its planning the universal mind recognizes that complete articulation which satisfies the craving for good order and symmetry in every part. Ibid.

Physicians kill more than they cure. — Burton

is the mother of modesty, as it puts us in mind of our mortality, and while we drive on heedlessly in the full career of worldly pomp and jollity, kindly pulls us by the ear, and brings us to a sense of our duty.

Sickness is the mother of modesty, as it puts us in mind of our mortality, and while we drive on heedlessly in the full career of worldly pomp and jollity, kindly pulls us by the ear, and brings us to a sense of our duty.

is assailed by misery as a tree that is heavy laden with fruit breaks its own boughs.

Misery assails riches, as lightning does the highest towers: or as a tree that is heavy laden with fruit breaks its own boughs, so do riches destroy the virtue of their possessor.

is assailed by misery as lightning does the highest towers.

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