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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

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The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

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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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Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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

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Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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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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It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

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