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There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.

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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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The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

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People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

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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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The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

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Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

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Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

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Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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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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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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The place of justice is a hallowed place.

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A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

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