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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

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The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.

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Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

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

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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God's first creature, which was light.

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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.

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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

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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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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And therefore, God never wrought Miracle, to convince Atheisme, because his Ordinary Works Convince it. It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth Mans Minde to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy, bringeth Mens Mindes about to Religion.

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All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.

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