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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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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

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It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

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The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

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The place of justice is a hallowed place.

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Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

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States are great engines moving slowly.

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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

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Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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A good conscience is a continual feast.

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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

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He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

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Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

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