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Riches are for spending.

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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

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Art is man added to Nature.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

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All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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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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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

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