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Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

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The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so

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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.

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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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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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Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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If you can talk about it, why paint it?

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Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

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For knowledge, too, is itself power.

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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

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Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

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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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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

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Praise is the reflection of virtue.

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Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

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The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.

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