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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

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He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

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Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

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