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Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

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the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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Boldness is a child of ignorance

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Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

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... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.

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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

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Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

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