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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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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

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Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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All will come out in the washing.

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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

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There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.

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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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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

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Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

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The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

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