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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
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Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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A little philosophy inclineth men's minds toward atheism, but depth of philosophy bringeth men's minds about again to religion.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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A little philosophy inclineth men's minds toward atheism; but depth of philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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I have taken all knowledge to by my province.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
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Read not to contradict and confute…nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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If a man will begin in certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin in doubts he shall end in certainties.
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For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
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In charity there is no excess.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
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Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
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Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
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He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
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The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, But depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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