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It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

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Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

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You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

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

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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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 poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

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We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

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In charity there is no excess.

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Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

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I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got to decide that you are not going to be afraid of making a fool of yourself. I think another thing is to be able to find subjects which really absorb you to try and do. I feel that without a subject you automatically go back into decoration because you haven't got the subject which is always eating into you to bring it back - and the greatest art always returns you to the vulnerability of the human situation.

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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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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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