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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

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All colours will agree in the dark.

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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

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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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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

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Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

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Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

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Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

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Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.

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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

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