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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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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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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

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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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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

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Wonder is the seed of knowledge

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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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Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand either give motion or guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions.

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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

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The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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Whatever you can, count.

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A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

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A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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