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That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.

Thomas Hobbes

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
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Fear Himself Natural Religious
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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Death Philosophy Victory War World
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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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Blame Clean Man Religious Secret Shame Thought
For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Experience Man Philosophy Prudent Time
Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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Body Deep Philosophy Universe
Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Angel Body Philosophy Thing
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Late Man Read Wisdom
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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Fool Man Money Philosophy Wise Word
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Evil Follow Good Great Past
Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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Grief Myself Nature Philosophy Place Time Torture Voice
Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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Desire End Imagination Live Man Philosophy

That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.

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