"Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion."
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"He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's."
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"The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding."
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"There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power."
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"In all superstition wise men follow fools."
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"There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother."
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"The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs."
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"Reading maketh a full man."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order."
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"Opportunity makes a thief."
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"Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible."
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"There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was.""
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"Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much."
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"Half of science is putting forth the right questions."
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"No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed."
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"By indignities men come to dignities."
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"If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks."
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"Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid."
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"Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly."
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