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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

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In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

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I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.

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

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By far the best proof is experience.

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

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The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.

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A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.

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Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

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Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

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Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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