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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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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

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I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles.

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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

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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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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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I would live to study, not study to live.

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Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

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Nothing is to be feared but fear.

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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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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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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

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All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

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I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

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