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In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

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The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

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All bravery stands upon comparisons.

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We only have our nervous system to paint.

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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

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All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

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Truth is a naked and open daylight

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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

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Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

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Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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