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Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

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There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

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And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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Mysteries are due to secrecy.

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

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The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

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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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As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

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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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Science is but an image of the truth.

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For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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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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