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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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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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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

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There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

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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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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

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Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

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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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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

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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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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

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But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.

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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

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Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

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I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.

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