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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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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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But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.

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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

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Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

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They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

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In all superstition wise men follow fools.

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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

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Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

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Science is but an image of the truth.

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In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

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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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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

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The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

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Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

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

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