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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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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

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It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

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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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I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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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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Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

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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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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.

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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

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People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

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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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Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.

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The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

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