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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

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Art is man added to Nature.

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If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

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Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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Come home to men's business and bosoms.

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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

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You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

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If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

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The remedy is worse than the disease.

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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

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I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

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