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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

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Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

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By far the best proof is experience.

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A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

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The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.

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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

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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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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

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Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

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All colours will agree in the dark.

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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

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