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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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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

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If you can talk about it, why paint it?

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

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Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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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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Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

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A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

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