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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

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Whatever you can, count.

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The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

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Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

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

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

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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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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

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First therefore let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts of God, as far as they are revealed to man and may be observed with sobriety; wherein we may not seek it by the name of Learning; for all Learning is Knowledge acquired, and all Knowledge in God is original: and therefore we must look for it by another name, that of Wisdom or Sapience, as the Scriptures call it.

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All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.

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Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

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