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It redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.
It was prettily devised of Aesop, ‘The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, what a dust do I raise.’
Knowledge is power.
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
Lucid intervals and happy pauses.
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when that faileth, he groweth out of use.
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
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