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Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

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There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.

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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

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It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

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Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

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I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.

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It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

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Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

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Boldness is a child of ignorance

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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

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As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

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Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

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