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Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous th...
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The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.
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I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's s...
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If you take me out of it, I find 'six degrees' to be a beautiful concept that we should try ...
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I like playing complex, interesting characters. Sometimes I don't think there's much of a st...
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For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our identity was based on being Hollywood haters. We ...
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Fame is very much a double-edged sword.
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When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of...
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I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.
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I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.
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We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our ocean...
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I like to hike and cook. I enjoy furniture and design - not making it, just looking at it. I'm a...
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I was in the first 'Friday The 13th,' and that was a microbudget horror film.
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If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year...
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Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.
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A moustache is actually the one thing I really can grow. One of the bad parts about my facial hair s...
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There's this American dream to put enough away that you can golf and build a birdhouse or just b...
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Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you'...
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Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.
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I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your politic...
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I have a natural swagger.
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I d...
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A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
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Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You...
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There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking h...
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I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become so...
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'Animal House' was my first movie, so I didn't have anything to compare it to. I was a s...
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I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats...
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I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into tha...
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It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more...
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There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my indu...
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From the time I signed on to 'The Following,' things have already vastly changed in the ente...
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People work so hard, and I want to keep that energy up, and you can spread that if you're the ac...
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Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook....
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I have fond memories of Chris Penn, who's sadly not with us. He always made me laugh - it was gr...
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. Yo...
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You can sit around and complain that Hollywood doesn't make any good movies. But you can generat...
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The greats are 'The Shining', 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Don't Look Now', &...
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There are two types of actors: those who say they want to be famous and those who are liars.
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Having to be a nice guy is the toughest job in the world when you're not,
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There's an addictive quality to fame and when your celebrity starts to wane, people get a real fear ...
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Interestingly enough, (a decision of Atom's) is possibly part of the reason why we're unable to over...
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I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move t...
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I'm not as enamored with actors as I am with musicians, especially like these guys, ... These are so...
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As an actor, I've always believed we have dark sides to ourselves,
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We knew there would be a certain amount of eye-rolling going on. It was inevitable. But the fact was...
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I had done 'Mystic River' and 'The Woodsman' and they were both internalized characters, characters ...
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All agreed that it would be wise to terminate part of the program that was being underutilized, but ...
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My kind of stuff, ... I like all kinds of ethnic foods.
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It's called acting,
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That's cool and that's going to work.
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If something great comes along, that would be fine, but I've really been enjoying the time off and r...
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'The River Wild' was great, with Meryl Streep. That guy was really a bad dude who was ultima...
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A River Runs Through It.
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We're famous for going to the hotel rooms and actually cleaning them up.
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[Heather McDonald's thoughtful Broadway drama,] An Almost Holy Picture, ... I was at the theater one...
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Career planning is an oxymoron, I find, but I am sort of trying to focus on doing something that's k...
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There's enough of my rear end already,
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I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.
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You have to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.
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I did a year of 'Guiding Light', and I was going to be a movie actor or a stage actor, but n...
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I used to live on Riverside Park in New York, on the Upper West Side.
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Being with Kyra is so natural for me; it's the easiest aspect of my life. I know that I don'...
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My father was into fame and leaving his mark. He was a city planner, sort of a genius in that world,...
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As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Tim...
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The whole industry is changing because so many people watch things on DVR, and they watch things on ...
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We're retaining a part of the program, but canceling a part we consider to be underutilized.
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A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it...
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Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.) -Bacon.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not tr...
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For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity...
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him...
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For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's...
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with d...
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider...
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divit...
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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
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There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion dot...
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But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co...
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A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
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Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
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One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught,...
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We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
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Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
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Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
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Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
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For knowledge, too, is itself a power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
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Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
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For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itsel...
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If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg...
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States are great engines moving slowly.
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They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body;...
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli...
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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused m...
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;...
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Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to ...
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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
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Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must...
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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the b...
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend...
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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
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For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal,...
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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from...
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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what ...
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There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy...
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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
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Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f...
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Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil...
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great ent...
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Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be de...
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom driv...
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the...
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as ...
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People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and ...
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Science is but an image of the truth.
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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and co...
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...
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The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it...
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...
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Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discou...
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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
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He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and ...
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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All colors will agree in the dark.
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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far...
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It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose pow...
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin wi...
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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars,...
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwre...
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosp...
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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in...
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Truth is a naked and open daylight
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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit...
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is reall...
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, o...
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
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All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This ...
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Riches are for spending.
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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly a...
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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave...
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It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save tha...
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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the b...
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Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
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Opportunity makes a thief.
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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners an...
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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Nature is commanded by obeying her.
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This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature...
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
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Mysteries are due to secrecy.
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Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially n...
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In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to b...
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy...
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
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Cure the disease and kill the patient.
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
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Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.

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Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.

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