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Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

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Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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

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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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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

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If you can talk about it, why paint it?

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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

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Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

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My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

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There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

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