If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.
Mysteries are due to secrecy.
God's first creature, which was light.
The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
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.
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.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
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.
Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.
In all superstition wise men follow fools.
Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.
Cure the disease and kill the patient.
To spend too much time in studies is sloth.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
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