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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

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Great changes are easier than small ones.

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There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

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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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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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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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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

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Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

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Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

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A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.

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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

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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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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

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