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I believe in deeply ordered chaos

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Cure the disease and kill the patient.

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The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

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...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion.

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I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

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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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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

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

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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

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All colours will agree in the dark.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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All will come out in the washing.

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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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