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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

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Wonder is the seed of knowledge

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

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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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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

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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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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

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A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

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A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

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