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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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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

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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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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 study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

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He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

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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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The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

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