
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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Well done is better than well said.
The best of all medicines are rest and fasting.
So convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Those who laugh often never grow old.
A man who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither.
Practice makes perfect.
All the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.