"I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can."
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"He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age."
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"Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not."
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"The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room."
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"The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances."
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"Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion."
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"What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?"
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"Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly."
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"Nothing is to be feared but fear."
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"It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.""
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"I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do."
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"The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner."
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"Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God"
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"For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs."
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"Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation."
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"But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment."
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"Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts."
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"Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless."
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"I would live to study, not study to live."
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"Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed."
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