The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ""Facts"". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
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They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
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