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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

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Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

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It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

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The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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Art is man added to Nature.

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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

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Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

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All colours will agree in the dark.

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Innovations, which are the births of time.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

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What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

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For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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I would live to study, not study to live.

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

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Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

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