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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

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When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

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For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

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A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

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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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The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

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States are great engines moving slowly.

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And therefore, God never wrought Miracle, to convince Atheisme, because his Ordinary Works Convince it. It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth Mans Minde to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy, bringeth Mens Mindes about to Religion.

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People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

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Opportunity makes a thief.

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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

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