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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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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

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The remedy is worse than the disease.

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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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He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

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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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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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All bravery stands upon comparisons.

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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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For knowledge, too, is itself power.

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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

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God's first creature, which was light.

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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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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 was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

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