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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

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Nothing is to be feared but fear.

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Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

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Wonder is the seed of knowledge

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

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There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

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Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

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