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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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Science is but an image of the truth.

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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

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For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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The remedy is worse than the disease.

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

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For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

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The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

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

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People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

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One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

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God's first creature, which was light.

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

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I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

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