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The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

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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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For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

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Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

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Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

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They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

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He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

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Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

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