"Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out."
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"A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person."
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"The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds."
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"Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more."
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"Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people."
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"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures."
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"Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt."
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"I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision."
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"It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity."
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"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."
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"Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands."
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"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."
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"The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it."
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"The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays"
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"The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible."
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"In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees."
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"The best armor is to keep out of gunshot."
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"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs."
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