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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

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Cure the disease and kill the patient.

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States are great engines moving slowly.

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Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

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Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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Man was formed for society.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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

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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

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It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

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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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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

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