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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

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I would live to study, not study to live.

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

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He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

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He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

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Man was formed for society.

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The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

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It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

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What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

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We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

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

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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

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Wonder is the seed of knowledge

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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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