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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

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It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

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Whatever you can, count.

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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

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We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

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

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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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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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Art is man added to Nature.

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