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

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Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

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Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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

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Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

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Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

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Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

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

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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

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Cure the disease and kill the patient.

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Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

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I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

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The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

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