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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

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the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

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Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

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Cure the disease and kill the patient.

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Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

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A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

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God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

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There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.

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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

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