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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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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

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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 End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

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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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the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

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It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

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

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

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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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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

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The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

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