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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

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Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

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Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

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Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

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