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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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Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

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He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

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Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

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But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men.

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Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

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Praise is the reflection of virtue.

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I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.

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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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Opportunity makes a thief.

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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