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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

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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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All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.

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It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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