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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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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

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Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

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He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

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

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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

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States, as great engines, move slowly.

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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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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

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The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

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Time is the author of authors.

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Money is a great servant but a bad master.

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