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It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

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Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

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A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

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Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

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

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There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

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States are great engines moving slowly.

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It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

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

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

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By far the best proof is experience.

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You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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