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States are great engines moving slowly.

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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

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There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

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The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

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Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

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The remedy is worse than the disease.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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