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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, ...Knowledge is power....If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us....If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics....Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sover...It is as natural to die as to be born and to a little infant...The world's a bubble and the life of man Less than a span....Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they ...Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it ...There is little friendship in the world, and least of all be...A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds....I think we have more machinery of government than is necessa...Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pa...Silence is the virtue of fools....A prudent question is one-half of wisdom....Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writi...The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies....Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And ...Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress...Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned ...The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the s...Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation....Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor....We cannot command nature except by obeying her....We read that we ought to forgive our enemies but we do not r...There is as much difference between the counsel that a frien...Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few ...It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to...The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship....Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and...A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but dep...He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils fo...Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle...For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to i...If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discov...If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The cove...If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts but if ...Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he i...Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed....Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or...If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts...It is impossible to love and to be wise....Nothing is to be feared but fear....The general root of superstition is that men observe when th...Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take ...Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural pie...Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper....Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to th...Natural abilities are like natural plants they need pruning ...No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage g...Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books....Discretion in speech is more than eloquence....Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entert...By far the best proof is experience....He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many....Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when ...I have taken all knowledge to by my province....Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will...In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy but in p...Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and som...Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's natu...Houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let u...They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when t...Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection....In charity there is no excess....There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness ...