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You can't be more horrific than life itself.

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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

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There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

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

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Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

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Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

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Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

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Science is but an image of the truth.

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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

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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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A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

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