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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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[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

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Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.

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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

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The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

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In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

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A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

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

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Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

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