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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

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Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

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The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

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There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

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All bravery stands upon comparisons.

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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

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

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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

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Truth is a naked and open daylight

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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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Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

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It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

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I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

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Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

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Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

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