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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

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They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

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Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

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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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All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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

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Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

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The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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Praise is the reflection of virtue.

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... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

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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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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

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