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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

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Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand either give motion or guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions.

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Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

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In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

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Riches are for spending.

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Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

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All will come out in the washing.

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For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

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Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

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One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

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

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Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

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