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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

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I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles.

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Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

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I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

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A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

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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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Time is the greatest innovator.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

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

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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

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Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

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

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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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