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| Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. | 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. | Men prefer to believe what they prefer to be true. | Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. | ...for that nothing doth more hurt in a state, than that cunning men pass for wise. | So when any of the four pillars of government, are mainly shaken, or weakened (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure), men had need to pray for fair weather. | Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, 'It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.' |
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