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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

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There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

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I believe in deeply ordered chaos

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Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

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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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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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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment

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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

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The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

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Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

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I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

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