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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.

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When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

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Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

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It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

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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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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

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For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

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Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

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To know truly is to know by causes.

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

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