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In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

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You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

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He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

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God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

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Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

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Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

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Art is man added to Nature.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

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The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

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The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

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