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'Mongst all these stirs of discontented strife,
O, let me lead an academic life;
To know much, and to think for nothing, know
Nothing to have, yet think we have enow.

— Joseph Hall

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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.

There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.

The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.

He is wealthy enough, that wanteth not: he is great enough, that is his own master: he is happy enough, that lives to die well.

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