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To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

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We only have our nervous system to paint.

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They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

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He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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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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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

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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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When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

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There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

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The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

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I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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