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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.

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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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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

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There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

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It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

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

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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

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Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

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Reading maketh a full man.

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But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

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