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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

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I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

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Praise is the reflection of virtue.

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Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

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Riches are for spending.

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Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

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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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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

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The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

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But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.

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Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; 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.

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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

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