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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

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The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

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I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

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

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The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

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I would live to study, not study to live.

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When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

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