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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

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Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

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Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

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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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[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

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Friends are thieves of time.

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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

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It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

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Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.

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There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.

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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

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