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Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

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For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

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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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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

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Reading maketh a full man.

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Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

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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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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

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In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

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Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.

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Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

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Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

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