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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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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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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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States are great engines moving slowly.

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No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.

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He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

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He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

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But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.

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A good conscience is a continual feast.

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

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I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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Man was formed for society.

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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

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There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

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A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

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