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Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

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Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

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Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

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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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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

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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 are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

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But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

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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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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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