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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

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A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

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Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

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He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

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By indignities men come to dignities.

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Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand either give motion or guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

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A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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