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

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

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It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

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

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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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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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For knowledge, too, is itself power.

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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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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

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Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

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There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.

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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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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

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A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

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