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Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

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There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

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Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

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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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It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.

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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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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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There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.

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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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