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It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

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Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

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For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

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The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

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Boldness is a child of ignorance

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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

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Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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

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We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

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By far the best proof is experience.

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

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