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The end of fishing is not angling, but catching.

It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

Still he fishes that catches one.

Fools grow without watering.

A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their birth, and at the post--their death; only they differ in the race of their lives.

The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.

He that fears you present will hate you absent.

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. -Thomas Fuller.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Thomas Fuller.

A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit.

Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high.

Thus God's children are immorall whiles their Father hath anything for them to do on earth.

Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee, But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun Thou springest from bondage and leavest behind thee A name which before thee no mortal hath won.

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself the most.

Virtue is the only true nobility.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. - Gnomologia, 1732.