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Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

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The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

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Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

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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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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

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I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

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I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

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There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

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For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

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Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

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For knowledge, too, is itself power.

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