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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

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Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

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

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A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

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The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

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There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

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I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.

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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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