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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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All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

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Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

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Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

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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 man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

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In charity there is no excess.

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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

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Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

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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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It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

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Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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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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The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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