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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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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

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

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The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

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God's first creature, which was light.

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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Man was formed for society.

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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

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Innovations, which are the births of time.

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Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

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