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For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

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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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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

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The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

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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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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

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Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

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It is natural to die as to be born.

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

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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

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He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

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