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When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

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Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

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Friends are thieves of time.

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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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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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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Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

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The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

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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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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

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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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