There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
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The light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.
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Nuptial love maketh mankind friendly love perfecteth it But wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth ... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.
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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Francis Bacon
Men suppose their reason has command over their words still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason.
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