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Geometry... is the Mother of all Natural Science.

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Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth;

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Time, and Industry, produce everyday new knowledge.

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The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History.

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In the state of nature, Profit is the measure of Right.

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For Appetite with an opinion of attaining, is called HOPE.

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Riches, knowledge and honour are but several sorts of power.

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So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime.

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The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

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The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

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No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.

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For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.

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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Understanding being nothing else, but conception caused by Speech.

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As much experience, is "prudence;" so, is much science "sapience."

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And Beasts that have Deliberation, must necessarily also have Will.

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Every man may think his own cause just till it be heard and judged.

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For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

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Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.

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Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.

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No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

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Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.

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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

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A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.

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Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?

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To accuse requires less eloquence (such is man's nature) than to excuse.

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Sudden Glory, is the passion which maketh those Grimaces called LAUGHTER.

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It is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

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Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.

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For such Truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.

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