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

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Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

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By indignities men come to dignities.

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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

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the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

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For knowledge, too, is itself power.

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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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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

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Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

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In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

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