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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

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When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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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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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

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When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

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

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It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

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