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

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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

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Art is man added to Nature.

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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

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

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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

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The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.

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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

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Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

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The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.

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I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

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