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A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

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Art is man added to Nature.

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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

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I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

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I would live to study, not study to live.

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It is natural to die as to be born.

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Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

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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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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment

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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

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I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got to decide that you are not going to be afraid of making a fool of yourself. I think another thing is to be able to find subjects which really absorb you to try and do. I feel that without a subject you automatically go back into decoration because you haven't got the subject which is always eating into you to bring it back - and the greatest art always returns you to the vulnerability of the human situation.

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Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

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Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

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