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If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

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The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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

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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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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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Reading maketh a full man.

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

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He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

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All will come out in the washing.

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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

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

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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

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Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

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

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