The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books.... They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.
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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.Francis Bacon
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
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The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the sense for as you may see great objects through small crannies or holes, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
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As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
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