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In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

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Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

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

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The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.

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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

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Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

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Opportunity makes a thief.

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The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

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There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

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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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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

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