"There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated."
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"Praise is the reflection of virtue."
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"You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it."
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"The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man."
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"The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth."
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"There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding."
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"The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed."
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"Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs."
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"Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory."
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"A lie faces God and shrinks from man."
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"The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer."
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"The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes."
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"Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it."
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"Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical."
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"Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy."
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"It was well said that envy keeps no holidays."
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"Come home to men's business and bosoms."
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"The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness."
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"First therefore let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts of God, as far as they are revealed to man and may be observed with sobriety; wherein we may not seek it by the name of Learning; for all Learning is Knowledge acquired, and all Knowledge in God is original: and therefore we must look for it by another name, that of Wisdom or Sapience, as the Scriptures call it."
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"All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man."
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