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For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

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Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

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Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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All will come out in the washing.

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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

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Friends are thieves of time.

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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

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The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

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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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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

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