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As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

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A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

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Wonder is the seed of knowledge

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It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

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Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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States are great engines moving slowly.

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

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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

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Riches are for spending.

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Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

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Truth is a naked and open daylight

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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.

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