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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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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

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Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

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A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

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There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

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Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

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The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

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Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

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Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

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If you can talk about it, why paint it?

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Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

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The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

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A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

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For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

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