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

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Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

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A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

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As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.

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The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

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Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

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I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

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The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

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