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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.

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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

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There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

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If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

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If you can talk about it, why paint it?

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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

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There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.

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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

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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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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

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