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A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

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Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

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Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

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Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

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States, as great engines, move slowly.

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It is natural to die as to be born.

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I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

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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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