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Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

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In all superstition wise men follow fools.

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There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

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I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.

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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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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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In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

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All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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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 will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

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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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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

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You can't be more horrific than life itself.

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My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

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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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