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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

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Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

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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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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

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But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

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But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.

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

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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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