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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

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The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.

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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

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Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

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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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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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

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There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

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Man was formed for society.

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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

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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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Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

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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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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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