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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

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For knowledge, too, is itself power.

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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

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The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

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God's first creature, which was light.

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

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He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

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