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Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

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In all superstition wise men follow fools.

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A good conscience is a continual feast.

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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And therefore, God never wrought Miracle, to convince Atheisme, because his Ordinary Works Convince it. It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth Mans Minde to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy, bringeth Mens Mindes about to Religion.

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

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All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

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... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

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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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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

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