What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
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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.Francis Bacon
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
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Knowledge is a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
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The world's a bubble and the life of man Less than a span.
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
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