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Great changes are easier than small ones.

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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

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The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.

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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

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Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

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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 is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

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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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They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

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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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No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.

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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

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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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If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

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Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

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