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Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

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Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

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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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In charity there is no excess.

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Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

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

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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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

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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.

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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

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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 general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

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For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

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Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

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