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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

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Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

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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'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

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Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

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

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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

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Truth is a naked and open daylight

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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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