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They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

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The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is not fully appearing is not collected into assertion, whereby error might draw error, but reserved in doubt: the other, that the entry of doubts are as so many suckers or sponges to draw use of knowledge; insomuch as that which, if doubts had not preceded, a man should never have advised, but passed it over without note, by the suggestion and solicitation of doubts, is made to be attended and applied.

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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

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

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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

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All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

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For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

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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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Come home to men's business and bosoms.

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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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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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

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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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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

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Friends are thieves of time.

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Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

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