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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

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Time is the author of authors.

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Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

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Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

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The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is not fully appearing is not collected into assertion, whereby error might draw error, but reserved in doubt: the other, that the entry of doubts are as so many suckers or sponges to draw use of knowledge; insomuch as that which, if doubts had not preceded, a man should never have advised, but passed it over without note, by the suggestion and solicitation of doubts, is made to be attended and applied.

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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

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Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

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It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.

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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

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