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" 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. "
Francis Bacon
Dog
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" We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. "
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" I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind. "
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" Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. "
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" The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. "
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" Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. "
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" It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt. "
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" God's first creature, which was light. "
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" The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. "
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" It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. "
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" Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. "
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" Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. "
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" Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. "
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" Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. "
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" Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. "
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" Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. "
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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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