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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

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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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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

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Whatever you can, count.

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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

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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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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

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For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

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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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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And therefore, God never wrought Miracle, to convince Atheisme, because his Ordinary Works Convince it. It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth Mans Minde to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy, bringeth Mens Mindes about to Religion.

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I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got to decide that you are not going to be afraid of making a fool of yourself. I think another thing is to be able to find subjects which really absorb you to try and do. I feel that without a subject you automatically go back into decoration because you haven't got the subject which is always eating into you to bring it back - and the greatest art always returns you to the vulnerability of the human situation.

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A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

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Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

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