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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.

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It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

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

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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

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The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

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I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

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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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I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

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There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

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Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

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Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

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As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

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In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

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Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

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