This same Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle lights.
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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
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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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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
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