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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

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.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Knowledge is power.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Friends are thieves of time.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

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.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

The worst men often give the best advice.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

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.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

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.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

God's first creature, which was light.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

It is natural to die as to be born.

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, or in good order.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

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 proper virtue.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Opportunity makes a thief.

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