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When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

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The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

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Time is the author of authors.

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment

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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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Opportunity makes a thief.

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But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men.

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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

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... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

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Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

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