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The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

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Come home to men's business and bosoms.

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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

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Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

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Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

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The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

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