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" Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. "
Francis Bacon
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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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" Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. "
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" Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. "
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" Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. "
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" They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. "
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" He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. "
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" Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. "
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" Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. "
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" A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. "
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" In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. "
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" Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. "
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" The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief. "
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" The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. "
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" The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. "
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