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If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

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The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

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The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

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Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

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Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

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Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

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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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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

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

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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

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One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

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