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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

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Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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Money is a great servant but a bad master.

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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

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One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.

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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

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Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

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