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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

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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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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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When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

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The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.

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

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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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

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I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

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Man was formed for society.

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