The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

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Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

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The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

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