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Some men covet knowledge out o...

Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

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Medical men do not know the dr...

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

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It is natural to die as to be ...

It is natural to die as to be born.

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Riches are for spending....

Riches are for spending.

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Of great wealth there is no re...

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

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It is by discourse that men as...

It is by discourse that men associate; and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations, wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

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But the idols of the Market Pl...

But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would al

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Since my logic aims to teach a...

Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.

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The greatest trust between man...

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

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The French are wiser than they...

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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You cannot teach a child to ta...

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

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Death is a friend of ours; and...

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

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Important families are like po...

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

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Croesus said to Cambyses; That...

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

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Ask counsel of both timesof th...

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

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None of the affections have be...

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

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Let no one think or maintain t...

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

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It is a secret both in nature ...

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

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Atheism leaves a man to sense,...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men-the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.

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It's not what we profess but w...

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....