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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

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Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

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

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For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

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Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

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Knowledge is power.

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

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Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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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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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

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Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

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