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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

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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 dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

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Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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

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In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

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If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

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