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For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

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I believe in deeply ordered chaos

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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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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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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

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

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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

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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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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.

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Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

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The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.

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