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If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

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I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

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Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

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Innovations, which are the births of time.

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I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

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The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

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Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

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Always let losers have their words.

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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

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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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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

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

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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

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Art is man added to Nature.

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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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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

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Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand either give motion or guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions.

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