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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

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People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

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I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles.

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Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

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All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.

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

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For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

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

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Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

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By indignities men come to dignities.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

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Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

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

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