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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

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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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Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

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Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

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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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God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

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