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Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

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For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

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Science is but an image of the truth.

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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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Cure the disease and kill the patient.

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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

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The place of justice is a hallowed place.

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

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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

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In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

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I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.

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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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Reading maketh a full man.

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Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

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