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

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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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Time is the author of authors.

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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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Come home to men's business and bosoms.

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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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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

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You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

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Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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