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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment

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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

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All colours will agree in the dark.

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

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Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

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

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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

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I believe in deeply ordered chaos

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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

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And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

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