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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

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By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.

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My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

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

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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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We only have our nervous system to paint.

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

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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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

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When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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