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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

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We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

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As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

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There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.

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Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

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Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

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Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Scientist

Born: October 19th, 1605

Died: October 19th, 1682

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