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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

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Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

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