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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

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In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

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

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There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

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One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

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You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

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I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.

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I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

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Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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Man was formed for society.

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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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