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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

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Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

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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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Knowledge is power.

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But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men.

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By indignities men come to dignities.

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By far the best proof is experience.

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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

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Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

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States are great engines moving slowly.

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

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A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

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There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

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Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

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All bravery stands upon comparisons.

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