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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

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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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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

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Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

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I would live to study, not study to live.

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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

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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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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

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Boldness is a child of ignorance

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The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so

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Always let losers have their words.

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Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

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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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I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

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the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

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