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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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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

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

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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

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Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

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Time is the greatest innovator.

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

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I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

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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 nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

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

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