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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

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Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

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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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A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

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Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

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When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

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All will come out in the washing.

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Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

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The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.

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States are great engines moving slowly.

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The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

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The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

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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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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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