"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."

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"Knowledge is power.--Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est."

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"Come home to men's business and bosoms."

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"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."

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"Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business."

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"Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God."

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"Virtue is like precious odours,--most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed."

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"No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth."

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"Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest."

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"Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.""

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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes."

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"God Almighty first planted a garden."

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"Men's thoughts are much according to their inclination, their discourse and speeches according to their learning and infused opinions."

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"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief."

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"For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages."

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"I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto."

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"The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before."

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"The remedy is worse than the disease."

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"Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes."

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"Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations."

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"Here are sands, ignoble things, Dropt from the ruined sides of kings."

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"What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtile flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life."

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"It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire."

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"Ah Sin was his name."

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"With the smile that was childlike and bland."

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"Which I wish to remark,-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar."

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"Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Love and tears for the Blue, Tears and love for the Gray."

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"If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him."

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"Love truth, but pardon error."

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"It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions."

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"There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times."

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"The first who was king was a fortunate soldier: Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

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"In this country [England] it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others."

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"The proper mean."

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"In the best of possible worlds the château of monseigneur the baron was the most beautiful of châteaux, and madame the best of possible baronesses."

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"History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes."

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"The king [Frederic] has sent me some of his dirty linen to wash; I will wash yours another time."

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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

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"The superfluous, a very necessary thing."

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"Crush the infamous thing."

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"It is the lot of man but once to die."

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"The slender debt to Nature 's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made."

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"Death aims with fouler spite At fairer marks."

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"The next way home 's the farthest way about."

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"This house is to be let for life or years; Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears. Cupid, 't has long stood void; her bills make known, She must be dearly let, or let alone."

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"Sweet Phosphor, bring the day! Light will repay The wrongs of night; Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!"

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"Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise."

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"I am just going to leap into the dark."

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"Whose cockloft is unfurnished."

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"One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man."

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