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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

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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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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

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the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

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He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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