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The desire of power in excess...

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

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The human understanding is of...

The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.

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The true bounds and limitatio...

The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

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Chiefly the mold of a man's f...

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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Men suppose their reason has ...

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

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Reading maketh a full man. ...

Reading maketh a full man.

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A cat will never drown if she...

A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

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That things are changed, and ...

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

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A man cannot speak to his son...

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

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The monuments of wit survive ...

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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To be free minded and cheerfu...

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

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Read not to contradict and co...

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

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My painting is not violent, i...

My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.

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The logic now in use serves r...

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

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Love and envy make a man pine...

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

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The human understanding of it...

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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He that will not apply new re...

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

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The best armor is to keep out...

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

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If we are to achieve things n...

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

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It's not what we profess but ...

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

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