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Acorns were good until bread was found. (Francis Bacon)
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. View quote
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It is natural to die as to be born. View quote
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. View quote
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The place of justice is a hallowed place. View quote
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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. View quote
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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection. View quote
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Ask a counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest. View quote
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. View quote
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Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion. View quote
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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it. (Francis Bacon)
Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not. View quote
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He that hath knowledge spareth his words. View quote
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Rebellions of the belly are the worst. View quote
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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. View quote
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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. View quote
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. View quote
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. View quote
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. View quote
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the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself. View quote
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel. (Francis Bacon)
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. View quote
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Let men learn (as we have said above) the difference that exists between the idols of the human mind, and the ideas of the Divine mind. The former are mere arbitrary abstractions; the latter the true marks of the Creator on his creatures, as they are imprinted on, and defined in matter, by true and exquisite touches. Truth, therefore, and utility are here perfectly identical. View quote
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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. View quote
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[Jews] hate the name of Christ and have a secret and innate rancor against the people among whom they live. View quote
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