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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

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He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

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I would live to study, not study to live.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

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I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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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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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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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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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

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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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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

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Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

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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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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment

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