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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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Cure the disease and kill the patient.

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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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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

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Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

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

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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.

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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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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

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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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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

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Mysteries are due to secrecy.

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