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We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

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If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

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The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

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Nothing is to be feared but fear.

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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

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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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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

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Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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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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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

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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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