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Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

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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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Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

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Truth is a naked and open daylight

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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

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

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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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I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

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States, as great engines, move slowly.

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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

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The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

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Time is the author of authors.

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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

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