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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

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For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

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I believe in deeply ordered chaos

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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

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A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

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For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

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Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

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There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

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Innovations, which are the births of time.

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To know truly is to know by causes.

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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

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