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• Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.
• [In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return…
• What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
• ...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most…
• Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects;…
• Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold,…
• A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
• All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want…

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