The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
THOMAS HOBBESConcerning 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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?
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And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.
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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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Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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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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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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