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Mysteries are due to secrecy.

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

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In all superstition wise men follow fools.

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

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

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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

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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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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

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We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.

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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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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

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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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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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