“Riches are for spending.”
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An English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author known as the father of Empiricism.
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“Riches are for spending.”
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“Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.”
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“Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.”
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“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”
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“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.”
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“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator.”
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“Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.”
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“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
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“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”
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“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
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“Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.”
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“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”
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“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismoun...”
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“God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth...”
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“Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever...”
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“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
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“Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.”
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“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
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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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