"Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works."
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"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
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"As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time."
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"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
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"God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave."
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"Silence is the virtue of fools."
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"There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom."
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"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
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"It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands"
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"Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order."
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"Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety."
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"Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of these joined, then they get the victory; for, Ne Hercules quidem contra duos [Not even Hercules himself is a match for two]. If the physician and the patient join, then down goes the disease; for then the patient recovers: if the physician and the disease join, that is a strong disease; and the physician mistaking the cure, then down goes the patient: if the patient and the disease join, then down goes the physician; for he is discredited."
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"Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)"
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"Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely."
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"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly."
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"Always let losers have their words."
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"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears."
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"But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on."
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"It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self."
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"To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men."
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