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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

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Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

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And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

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You can't be more horrific than life itself.

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There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

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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 strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

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Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

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[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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