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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

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The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

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States are great engines moving slowly.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

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If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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Science is but an image of the truth.

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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

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We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.

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