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" If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. "

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" What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! "

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" The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. "

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" Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. "

" The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. "

" He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. "

" If a thing loves, it is infinite. "

" I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. "

" The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. "

" Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. "

" What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. "

" In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. "

" To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. "

" What is now proved was once only imagined. "

" Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. "

" The true method of knowledge is experiment. "

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" A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. "

" He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. "