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Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

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I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

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For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

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

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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

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Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

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He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

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The worst men often give the best advice.

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Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

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Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

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Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

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Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

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