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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

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Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

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A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

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In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

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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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Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

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It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

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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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Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

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When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

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Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

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