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Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.

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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

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

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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Knowledge is power.

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Praise is the reflection of virtue.

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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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

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I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

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God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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By far the best proof is experience.

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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

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

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