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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

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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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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

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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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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

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

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

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All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

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Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

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When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

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It is natural to die as to be born.

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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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Science is but an image of the truth.

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