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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

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Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

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[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

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Truth is a naked and open daylight

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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

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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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Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

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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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What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

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