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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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

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They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

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For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

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I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

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He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

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Time is the greatest innovator.

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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

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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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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

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Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

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All colours will agree in the dark.

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