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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

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Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

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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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When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

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The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

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It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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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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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

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Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

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

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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.

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

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