The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.Francis Bacon
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.
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In peace the sons bury their fathers and in war the fathers bury their sons.
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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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For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
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