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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

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Opportunity makes a thief.

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Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.

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A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

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To know truly is to know by causes.

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They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

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I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

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