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I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

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

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It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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Knowledge is power.

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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.

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Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

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For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

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All will come out in the washing.

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

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Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of these joined, then they get the victory; for, Ne Hercules quidem contra duos [Not even Hercules himself is a match for two]. If the physician and the patient join, then down goes the disease; for then the patient recovers: if the physician and the disease join, that is a strong disease; and the physician mistaking the cure, then down goes the patient: if the patient and the disease join, then down goes the physician; for he is discredited.

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