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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

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But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

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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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The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

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If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

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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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Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

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The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so

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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.

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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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