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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

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It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

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The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

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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.

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Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

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

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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

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Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

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The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.

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A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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