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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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

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Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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

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Wonder is the seed of knowledge

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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

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In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

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The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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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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To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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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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Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

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We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

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