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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

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The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

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Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

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The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

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The worst men often give the best advice.

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But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men.

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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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

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Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works.

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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

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