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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

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There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.

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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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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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...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 hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

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