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Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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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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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

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I believe in deeply ordered chaos

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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

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Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

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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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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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To know truly is to know by causes.

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