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If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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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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Whatever you can, count.

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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

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

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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

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