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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

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A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

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There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

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Man was formed for society.

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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

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Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

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

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For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

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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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The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

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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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By indignities men come to dignities.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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