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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

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I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

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Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

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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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Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

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Truth is a naked and open daylight

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A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

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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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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.

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