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Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

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In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

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Time is the greatest innovator.

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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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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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In charity there is no excess.

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Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

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And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And therefore, God never wrought Miracle, to convince Atheisme, because his Ordinary Works Convince it. It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth Mans Minde to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy, bringeth Mens Mindes about to Religion.

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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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I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

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It is natural to die as to be born.

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

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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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Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

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