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Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

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For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

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All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.

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Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

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The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

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Man was formed for society.

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Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

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Art is man added to Nature.

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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

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

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