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If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

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

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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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

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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

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Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

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As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

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It is natural to die as to be born.

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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

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