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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

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A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

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There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

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

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In charity there is no excess.

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The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

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

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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

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A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

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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 nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

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There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.

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