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Innovations, which are the births of time.

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

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A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

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A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

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

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Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

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A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

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