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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

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Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

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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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The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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You can't be more horrific than life itself.

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Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

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First therefore let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts of God, as far as they are revealed to man and may be observed with sobriety; wherein we may not seek it by the name of Learning; for all Learning is Knowledge acquired, and all Knowledge in God is original: and therefore we must look for it by another name, that of Wisdom or Sapience, as the Scriptures call it.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

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