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But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.

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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

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It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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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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Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

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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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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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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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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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