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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Francis Bacon
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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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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
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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.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
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