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Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

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

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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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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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

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The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

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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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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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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

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A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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

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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

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