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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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Opportunity makes a thief.

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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

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Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

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Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

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The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

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Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

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Science is but an image of the truth.

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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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