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But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

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Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

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It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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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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A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

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He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

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A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

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

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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

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Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

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Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

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