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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

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Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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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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And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

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The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

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In charity there is no excess.

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Friends are thieves of time.

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There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

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Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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