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Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

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Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

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The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

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I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

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All bravery stands upon comparisons.

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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

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A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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Mysteries are due to secrecy.

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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

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