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- A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
- Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
- Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
- Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words,…
- Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
- The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
- There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
- Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and…
- But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things…
- The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to…
- ...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same…
- Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been,…
- ...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of…
- There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.
- The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And…
- Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of…
- The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
- Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
- Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and…
- Awise man will make more opportunities than he finds
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