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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

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

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As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

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Riches are for spending.

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I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles.

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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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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

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

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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

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Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

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If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

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But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.

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Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

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