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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

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Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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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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Wonder is the seed of knowledge

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If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

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If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

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Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

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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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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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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

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