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A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

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

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The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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Cure the disease and kill the patient.

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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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

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But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

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It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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

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It is natural to die as to be born.

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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

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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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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

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If you can talk about it, why paint it?

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