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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

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Friends are thieves of time.

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One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

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Always let losers have their words.

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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

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Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

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There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

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

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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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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

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

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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

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