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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

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Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

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You can't be more horrific than life itself.

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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

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Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

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Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

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God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.

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

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

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God's first creature, which was light.

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Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

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The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

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