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In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

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Man was formed for society.

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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

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But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men.

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The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

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

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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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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

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The remedy is worse than the disease.

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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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