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The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

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Nothing is to be feared but fear.

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In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

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They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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The place of justice is a hallowed place.

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People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

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It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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

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For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

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There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.

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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

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