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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

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For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

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They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

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The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is not fully appearing is not collected into assertion, whereby error might draw error, but reserved in doubt: the other, that the entry of doubts are as so many suckers or sponges to draw use of knowledge; insomuch as that which, if doubts had not preceded, a man should never have advised, but passed it over without note, by the suggestion and solicitation of doubts, is made to be attended and applied.

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Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

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

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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

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The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.

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Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

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Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things

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Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

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Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

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