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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

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A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

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Come home to men's business and bosoms.

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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

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

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.

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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

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There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

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It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

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A good conscience is a continual feast.

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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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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

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Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

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In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

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