"Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion."
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"We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do."
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"Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time."
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"None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy."
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"... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity."
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"Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man."
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"The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend."
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"In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues."
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"Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity."
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"To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together."
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"A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war."
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"Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest."
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"All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion."
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"If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not."
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"But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action."
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"We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?"
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"...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion."
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"Revenge is a kind of wild justice."
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"By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind."
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"Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas."
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