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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

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There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

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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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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment

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

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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

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

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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

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