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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

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Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.

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Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

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Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.

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Presume not that I am the thing I was.

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Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.

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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

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It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

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O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost

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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

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Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

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Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

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The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.

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With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him to come up.

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If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

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Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

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There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.

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Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all!

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