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It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

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Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

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There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

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the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

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Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

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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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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

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For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

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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 desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

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