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

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

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Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

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The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

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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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Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

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He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

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

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And therefore, God never wrought Miracle, to convince Atheisme, because his Ordinary Works Convince it. It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth Mans Minde to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy, bringeth Mens Mindes about to Religion.

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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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To know truly is to know by causes.

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Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

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